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liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma2 · 2.6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 77
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
69 vs 67

Hardware

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b gemma2:2b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b gemma2:2b
Tokens/sec58.955.1
First chunk28 msN/A
TTFT481 ms152 ms
Load timeN/A0.6 s
Memory usage17.5 GB2.8 GB
Memory %73%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

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

gemma2:2b

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

Quality

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

gemma2:2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor 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