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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Global Score
68 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 54
Quality Score
54 vs 88

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMacBook AirHP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores1012
RAM32 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
Tokens/sec77.38.0
First chunk177 ms1468 ms
TTFT177 ms1.5 s
Load timeN/A114.5 s
Memory usage1.2 GB33.5 GB
Memory %4%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
11/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
24/30

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-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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