lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
68 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 90
Quality Score
54 vs 47
Hardware
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec77.334.6
First chunk177 ms5314 ms
TTFT177 ms5.3 s
Load timeN/A5.1 s
Memory usage1.2 GB1.1 GB
Memory %4%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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