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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
68 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
54 vs 74

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec77.393.7
First chunk177 ms249 ms
TTFT177 ms249 ms
Load timeN/A10.1 s
Memory usage1.2 GB2.9 GB
Memory %4%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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