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text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 64
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
44 vs 49

Hardware

text-embedding-nom… smollm2:1.7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

text-embedding-nom… smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec45.351.8
First chunk2440 msN/A
TTFT2.4 s84 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB3.7 GB
Memory %0%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
Memory
29/30

smollm2:1.7b

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

Quality

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest