smollm2:1.7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q8_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.8:27b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M
Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925
Global Score
64 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 66
Quality Score
49 vs 92
Hardware
smollm2:1.7b qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
smollm2:1.7b qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec51.829.4
First chunkN/A306 ms
TTFT84 ms4.8 s
Load time0.4 s5.3 s
Memory usage3.7 GB16.2 GB
Memory %12%13%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2:1.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.8:27b
Speed
31/50
TTFT
5/20
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
qwen3.8:27b
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest