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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

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
60 vs 52
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
52 vs 32

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b smollm2-360m-instr…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b smollm2-360m-instr…
Tokens/sec227.0121.1
First chunk60 ms106 ms
TTFT30.0 s106 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB0.7 GB
Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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