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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
48 vs 87
Hardware Fit
98 vs 83
Quality Score
26 vs 88

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Max
Cores416
RAM16 GB128 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec20.029.1
First chunk1116 ms9 ms
TTFT1.1 s650 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB21.0 GB
Memory %2%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest