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nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
93 vs 68
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
92 vs 54

Hardware

nemotron-3-nano:4b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
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

nemotron-3-nano:4b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec31.777.3
First chunk270 ms177 ms
TTFT2.9 s177 ms
Load time2.1 sN/A
Memory usage4.1 GB1.2 GB
Memory %25%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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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