smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

52 vs 89

Hardware Fit

100 vs 95

Quality Score

32 vs 87

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… gemma4:26b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec121.148.3

First chunk106 ms346 ms

TTFT106 ms346 ms

Load timeN/A4.4 s

Memory usage0.7 GB36.1 GB

Memory %2%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

45/50

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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