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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

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

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 61
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
51 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec85.431.4
First chunk115 ms138 ms
TTFT115 ms138 ms
Load time0.5 s3.7 s
Memory usage2.6 GB6.6 GB
Memory %8%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

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

Quality

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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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