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neural-chat:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
67 vs 74
Hardware Fit
96 vs 84
Quality Score
55 vs 69

Hardware

neural-chat:7b liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

neural-chat:7b liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec22.558.9
First chunkN/A28 ms
TTFT242 ms481 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.5 GB17.5 GB
Memory %14%73%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

neural-chat:7b

Speed
36/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

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

Quality

neural-chat:7b

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

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
13/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest