smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

52 vs 87

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

32 vs 90

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.184.1

First chunk106 ms371 ms

TTFT106 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A0.3 s

Memory usage0.7 GB24.9 GB

Memory %2%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed

50/50

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

13/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest