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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
51 vs 68
Hardware Fit
46 vs 100
Quality Score
53 vs 54

Hardware

phi4-mini lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4
Cores810
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec2.677.3
First chunk5406 ms177 ms
TTFT5.4 s177 ms
Load time27.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB1.2 GB
Memory %30%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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