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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
70 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
57 vs 52

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec84.1227.0
First chunkN/A60 ms
TTFT119 ms30.0 s
Load time0.5 s0.7 s
Memory usage2.6 GB2.6 GB
Memory %8%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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