lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Global Score
68 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 79
Hardware
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3:8b
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… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec77.3208.0
First chunk177 ms82 ms
TTFT177 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage1.2 GB9.6 GB
Memory %4%20%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3:8b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30
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
qwen3:8b
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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