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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
68 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
54 vs 52

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… hf.co/bartowski/ai…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec77.329.6
First chunk177 ms264 ms
TTFT177 ms264 ms
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage1.2 GB8.4 GB
Memory %4%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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