liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
LM-STUDIO MLXlfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit
Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3-vl:8b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M
Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Global Score
74 vs 72
Hardware Fit
84 vs 89
Quality Score
69 vs 64
Hardware
liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMac miniHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM24 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power
Performance
liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec51.868.2
First chunk10 ms285 ms
TTFT503 ms2.0 s
Load timeN/A42.4 s
Memory usage17.5 GB7.1 GB
Memory %73%3%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
14/30
qwen3-vl:8b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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
qwen3-vl:8b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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