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smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
63 vs 53
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
39 vs 22

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b stablelm2:1.6b
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 stablelm2:1.6b
Tokens/sec50.393.8
TTFT81 ms94 ms
Load time0.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage3.7 GB1.1 GB
Memory %12%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
29/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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