phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 26

Hardware Fit

83 vs 50

Quality Score

55 vs 10

Hardware

phi3:14b deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi3:14b deepseek-r1:14b

Tokens/sec12.711.4

TTFT434 ms30.0 s

Load time0.9 s1.0 s

Memory usage17.7 GB16.5 GB

Memory %55%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:14b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi3:14b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

7/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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