lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3-1.7b
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Global Score
68 vs 19
Hardware Fit
100 vs 64
Quality Score
54 vs 0
Hardware
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-1.7b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… qwen3-1.7b
Tokens/sec77.35.9
First chunk177 ms2111 ms
TTFT177 ms2.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.2 GB1.2 GB
Memory %4%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3-1.7b
Speed
21/50
TTFT
19/20
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
qwen3-1.7b
Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest