lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

78 vs 36

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

68 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec105.910.3

First chunk252 ms27 ms

TTFT252 ms20.7 s

Load timeN/A15.4 s

Memory usage0.1 GB1.0 GB

Memory %0%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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