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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-0.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 0.6B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
68 vs 40
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
54 vs 19

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-0.6b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-0.6b
Tokens/sec77.314.4
First chunk177 ms854 ms
TTFT177 ms854 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.2 GB0.5 GB
Memory %4%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-0.6b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3-0.6b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
4/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest