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

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 81
Hardware Fit
97 vs 84
Quality Score
46 vs 79

Hardware

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM… qwen3.5-9b
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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec31.320.4
First chunk131 ms3034 ms
TTFT131 ms3.0 s
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage6.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-9b

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