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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 58
Hardware Fit
98 vs 68
Quality Score
26 vs 54

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec20.016.7
First chunk1116 ms23 ms
TTFT1.1 s14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB7.8 GB
Memory %2%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest