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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 61
Hardware Fit
81 vs 97
Quality Score
41 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2Apple M1 Pro
Cores810
RAM8 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…
Tokens/sec24.831.3
First chunk317 ms131 ms
TTFT7.4 s131 ms
Load time0.0 s4.2 s
Memory usage3.9 GB6.6 GB
Memory %49%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
25/30

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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