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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

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 89
Hardware Fit
80 vs 95
Quality Score
52 vs 87

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen/qwen3-8b
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 qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec227.033.4
First chunk60 ms257 ms
TTFT30.0 s257 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB4.3 GB
Memory %6%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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