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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
78 vs 68
Hardware Fit
86 vs 100
Quality Score
74 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorApple M4
Cores2410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec48.577.3
First chunk202 ms177 ms
TTFT4.3 s177 ms
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage5.5 GB1.2 GB
Memory %9%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate 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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