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lfm2.5:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 96
Quality Score
73 vs 52

Hardware

lfm2.5:8b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5:8b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec98.523.8
First chunk167 ms232 ms
TTFT2.5 s232 ms
Load time3.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage6.0 GB5.3 GB
Memory %37%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5:8b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

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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