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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
52 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 59
Quality Score
32 vs 87

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec121.19.3
First chunk106 ms21 ms
TTFT106 ms3.6 s
Load timeN/A32.0 s
Memory usage0.7 GB1.8 GB
Memory %2%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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