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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

granite · 2B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
52 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 87
Quality Score
32 vs 57

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… granite-3.3-2b-ins…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… granite-3.3-2b-ins…
Tokens/sec121.118.3
First chunk106 ms541 ms
TTFT106 ms541 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB4.7 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Speed
37/50
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

granite-3.3-2b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$ metrillm

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