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nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
68 vs 48
Hardware Fit
87 vs 63
Quality Score
60 vs 41

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec15.96.6
First chunkN/A3184 ms
TTFT345 ms3.2 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage6.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %21%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed
27/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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