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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

granitemoe · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
68 vs 50
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
54 vs 31

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… granite-3.1-1b-a40…
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… granite-3.1-1b-a40…
Tokens/sec77.319.6
First chunk177 ms1141 ms
TTFT177 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.2 GB0.8 GB
Memory %4%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-in…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-in…

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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