lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 2.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

68 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

54 vs 46

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-vl:2b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-vl:2b

Tokens/sec77.3127.4

First chunk177 ms101 ms

TTFT177 ms630 ms

Load timeN/A5.9 s

Memory usage1.2 GB33.2 GB

Memory %4%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-vl:2b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

19/20

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

qwen3-vl:2b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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