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nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
85 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
78 vs 52

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano:4b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB48 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nemotron-3-nano:4b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec31.7227.0
First chunk265 ms60 ms
TTFT265 ms30.0 s
Load time2.2 s0.7 s
Memory usage4.1 GB2.6 GB
Memory %25%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano:4b

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

nemotron-3-nano:4b

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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