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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · IQ4_XS

Excellent

Aug 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-7700HQ

Global Score
68 vs 87
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 82

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_…
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL702VMK
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-7700HQ
Cores108
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_…
Tokens/sec77.324.7
First chunk177 ms283 ms
TTFT177 ms283 ms
Load timeN/A45.8 s
Memory usage1.2 GB4.3 GB
Memory %4%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:la…

Speed
50/50
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

Ling-3.0-tiny-IQ4_XS:la…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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