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smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
64 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 59
Quality Score
49 vs 84

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2:1.7b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec51.826.8
First chunkN/A632 ms
TTFT84 ms30.0 s
Load time0.4 s5.4 s
Memory usage3.7 GB9.3 GB
Memory %12%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
0/20
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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
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
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest