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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 61
Hardware Fit
89 vs 97
Quality Score
38 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…
Tokens/sec52.931.3
First chunk4013 ms131 ms
TTFT4.0 s131 ms
Load timeN/A4.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB6.6 GB
Memory %1%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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