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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
70 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec188.028.5
First chunk108 ms393 ms
TTFT1.2 s393 ms
Load time7.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %21%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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