starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
OLLAMA GGUFlfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M
May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
65 vs 60
Hardware Fit
96 vs 80
Quality Score
52 vs 52
Hardware
starling-lm:7b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starling-lm:7b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec23.8227.0
First chunk232 ms60 ms
TTFT232 ms30.0 s
Load time0.4 s0.7 s
Memory usage5.3 GB2.6 GB
Memory %17%6%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
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
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
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