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lfm2.5:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 73
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
73 vs 62

Hardware

lfm2.5:8b qwen3.5:2b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5:8b qwen3.5:2b
Tokens/sec98.530.4
First chunk167 msN/A
TTFT2.5 s215 ms
Load time3.0 s1.8 s
Memory usage6.0 GB4.5 GB
Memory %37%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

lfm2.5:8b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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