smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

52 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

32 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]

OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.135.6

First chunk106 ms52 ms

TTFT106 ms256 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB8.6 GB

Memory %2%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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