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lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
68 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
54 vs 72

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-vl:30b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-vl:30b
Tokens/sec77.3208.9
First chunk177 ms102 ms
TTFT177 ms684 ms
Load timeN/A0.1 s
Memory usage1.2 GB22.0 GB
Memory %4%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:30b

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-vl:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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