lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
phi4:latest
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M
Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Global Score
68 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 79
Hardware
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… phi4:latest
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… phi4:latest
Tokens/sec77.338.3
First chunk177 ms72 ms
TTFT177 ms72 ms
Load timeN/A6.2 s
Memory usage1.2 GB9.1 GB
Memory %4%29%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
phi4:latest
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
phi4:latest
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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