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lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

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May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

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Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
60 vs 36
Hardware Fit
80 vs 53
Quality Score
52 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec227.010.3
First chunk60 ms27 ms
TTFT30.0 s20.7 s
Load time0.7 s15.4 s
Memory usage2.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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