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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
76 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec33.8227.0
First chunk293 ms60 ms
TTFT293 ms30.0 s
Load time2.5 s0.7 s
Memory usage6.5 GB2.6 GB
Memory %20%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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