lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
OLLAMA GGUFlfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M
May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
Global Score
60 vs 81
Hardware Fit
80 vs 68
Quality Score
52 vs 87
Hardware
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1416
RAM48 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec227.016.4
First chunk60 ms5 ms
TTFT30.0 s742 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB38.5 GB
Memory %6%30%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Speed
18/50
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/qwen3.8-27b
Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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