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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Nov 4, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-9700

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
29 vs 68
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
6 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3:4b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineVMware, Inc. VMware Virtual PlatformMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i7-9700Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec10.477.3
First chunk857 ms177 ms
TTFT857 ms177 ms
Load time41.0 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB1.2 GB
Memory %19%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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