smollm2:1.7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q8_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
gemma3:1b
OLLAMA GGUFgemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
64 vs 57
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 39
Hardware
smollm2:1.7b gemma3:1b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
smollm2:1.7b gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec51.833.7
First chunkN/A2039 ms
TTFT84 ms2.0 s
Load time0.4 s7.3 s
Memory usage3.7 GB0.8 GB
Memory %12%11%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
smollm2:1.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
gemma3:1b
Speed
50/50
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
gemma3:1b
Reasoning
6/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest