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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
52 vs 49
Hardware Fit
100 vs 54
Quality Score
32 vs 47

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec121.121.6
First chunk106 ms1505 ms
TTFT106 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage0.7 GB22.7 GB
Memory %2%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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