smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

52 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 56

Quality Score

32 vs 78

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec121.15.3

First chunk106 ms1624 ms

TTFT106 ms1.6 s

Load timeN/A4.0 s

Memory usage0.7 GB7.9 GB

Memory %2%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

11/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

25/30

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

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest