smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 39

Hardware Fit

99 vs 66

Quality Score

39 vs 21

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec50.321.8

TTFT81 ms9.6 s

Load time0.4 s3.5 s

Memory usage3.7 GB0.0 GB

Memory %12%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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