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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-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 70
Hardware Fit
95 vs 93
Quality Score
73 vs 60

Hardware

lfm2.5:8b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
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-mlx
Tokens/sec98.532.9
First chunk167 ms3096 ms
TTFT2.5 s3.1 s
Load time3.0 sN/A
Memory usage6.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %37%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5:8b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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