smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-1_5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

phi2 · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

52 vs 28

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

32 vs 11

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… phi-1_5

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

smollm2-360m-instr… phi-1_5

Tokens/sec121.16.9

First chunk106 ms3040 ms

TTFT106 ms3.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB1.4 GB

Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

phi-1_5

Speed

24/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

26/30

Quality

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

4/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

phi-1_5

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest