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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

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
60 vs 80
Hardware Fit
80 vs 85
Quality Score
52 vs 78

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1480
RAM48 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4 ProTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.4.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec227.065.1
First chunk60 ms289 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.2 s
Load time0.7 s4.6 s
Memory usage2.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest