qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

42 vs 25

Hardware Fit

60 vs 46

Quality Score

30 vs 11

Hardware

qwen3:8b deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownunknown

Performance

qwen3:8b deepseek-r1:14b

Tokens/sec18.210.8

TTFT12.4 s30.0 s

Load time2.7 s5.3 s

Memory usage9.5 GB16.5 GB

Memory %30%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

16/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor 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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