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smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
64 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
49 vs 54

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook AiriMac
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-4771
Cores108
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec51.819.6
First chunkN/A690 ms
TTFT84 ms690 ms
Load time0.4 s21.4 s
Memory usage3.7 GB1.0 GB
Memory %12%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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