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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
68 vs 46
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
54 vs 26

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… gemma3:4b
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… gemma3:4b
Tokens/sec77.314.9
First chunk177 ms2204 ms
TTFT177 ms2.2 s
Load timeN/A2.0 s
Memory usage1.2 GB2.6 GB
Memory %4%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma3:4b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Poor
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