smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

64 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 89

Quality Score

49 vs 65

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b qwen3.5-9b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec51.828.9

First chunkN/A338 ms

TTFT84 ms338 ms

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage3.7 GB6.1 GB

Memory %12%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

39/50

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest