lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
OLLAMA GGUFlfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M
May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
60 vs 65
Hardware Fit
80 vs 96
Quality Score
52 vs 52
Hardware
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec227.023.8
First chunk60 ms232 ms
TTFT30.0 s232 ms
Load time0.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage2.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %6%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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