smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 2.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

52 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

32 vs 46

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3-vl:2b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3-vl:2b

Tokens/sec121.1127.4

First chunk106 ms101 ms

TTFT106 ms630 ms

Load timeN/A5.9 s

Memory usage0.7 GB33.2 GB

Memory %2%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-vl:2b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

19/20

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

qwen3-vl:2b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak 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