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lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 53
Hardware Fit
80 vs 89
Quality Score
52 vs 38

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1414
RAM48 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec227.052.9
First chunk60 ms4013 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.0 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %6%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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