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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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
60 vs 80
Hardware Fit
80 vs 63
Quality Score
52 vs 87

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b qwen3.8-27b-claude…
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 qwen3.8-27b-claude…
Tokens/sec227.024.0
First chunk60 ms20 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.5 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB15.7 GB
Memory %6%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed
27/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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