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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

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

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-coder-v2:…
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-coder-v2:…
Tokens/sec77.3150.4
First chunk177 ms116 ms
TTFT177 ms116 ms
Load timeN/A5.8 s
Memory usage1.2 GB9.4 GB
Memory %4%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

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

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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