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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q8_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
52 vs 86
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
32 vs 80

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
Tokens/sec121.137.7
First chunk106 ms120 ms
TTFT106 ms120 ms
Load timeN/A8.3 s
Memory usage0.7 GB8.4 GB
Memory %2%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b-q8_0

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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