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smollm2:360m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2.5:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
32 vs 73

Hardware

smollm2:360m lfm2.5:8b
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

smollm2:360m lfm2.5:8b
Tokens/sec117.998.5
First chunkN/A167 ms
TTFT43 ms2.5 s
Load time0.4 s3.0 s
Memory usage1.2 GB6.0 GB
Memory %4%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:360m

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

lfm2.5:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

smollm2:360m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

lfm2.5:8b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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