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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 47
Hardware Fit
98 vs 67
Quality Score
26 vs 38

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec20.018.7
First chunk1116 msN/A
TTFT1.1 s12.1 s
Load timeN/A1.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB9.5 GB
Memory %2%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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