lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Global Score
68 vs 37
Hardware Fit
100 vs 73
Quality Score
54 vs 22
Hardware
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power
Performance
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec77.318.4
First chunk177 ms593 ms
TTFT177 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage1.2 GB1.0 GB
Memory %4%4%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30
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
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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