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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
68 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 59
Quality Score
54 vs 88

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3:32b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3:32b
Tokens/sec77.39.7
First chunk177 ms324 ms
TTFT177 ms324 ms
Load timeN/A24.5 s
Memory usage1.2 GB26.8 GB
Memory %4%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3:32b

Speed
9/50
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

qwen3:32b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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