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baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

ernie4_5-moe · 21B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Nov 1, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
86 vs 68
Hardware Fit
93 vs 100
Quality Score
83 vs 54

Hardware

baidu/ernie-4.5-21… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineGMKtec EVO-X3MacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM120 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon(TM) 8060S GraphicsApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

baidu/ernie-4.5-21… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec46.377.3
First chunk33 ms177 ms
TTFT383 ms177 ms
Load time49.7 sN/A
Memory usage32.5 GB1.2 GB
Memory %27%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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