smollm2-360m-instruct

llama · 360M · bf16

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 4, 2026

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Global Score

52 /100

Marginal

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

32/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 121.1
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±4.3
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 106 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 106 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: N/A
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 0.7 GB (2%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1046

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction following

12/20

Structured output

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

4/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: LM Studio 0.4.6+1
Model format: MLX
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 9f84d8c5aa42f7c68c37b26feea98fff35f4e370e050754dfbab379c7f7f6157

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 100/100. Overall suitability: MARGINAL (Global 52/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Poor, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Weak, Math: Poor, Multilingual: Weak.

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 15% (peak 17%)

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