llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 25

Hardware Fit

93 vs 46

Quality Score

53 vs 11

Hardware

llama3.1:8b deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

llama3.1:8b deepseek-r1:14b

Tokens/sec20.210.8

TTFT481 ms30.0 s

Load time3.4 s5.3 s

Memory usage10.4 GB16.5 GB

Memory %33%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

16/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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