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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
75 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Air
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec54.077.3
First chunk68 ms177 ms
TTFT68 ms177 ms
Load time6.1 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB1.2 GB
Memory %18%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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