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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
68 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 65

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec77.3161.3
First chunk177 ms51 ms
TTFT177 ms51 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage1.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %4%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3:1.7b

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

Quality

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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