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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-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score
68 vs 52
Hardware Fit
100 vs 69
Quality Score
54 vs 45

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX
Cores1024
RAM32 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec77.329.4
First chunk177 ms593 ms
TTFT177 ms593 ms
Load timeN/A14.2 s
Memory usage1.2 GB42.6 GB
Memory %4%67%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
16/30

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-q4_…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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