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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

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 79
Hardware Fit
80 vs 98
Quality Score
52 vs 71

Hardware

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1412
RAM48 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec227.041.4
First chunk60 ms257 ms
TTFT30.0 s257 ms
Load time0.7 s5.2 s
Memory usage2.6 GB9.0 GB
Memory %6%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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