mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 36

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

62 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec29.110.3

First chunk451 ms27 ms

TTFT451 ms20.7 s

Load timeN/A15.4 s

Memory usage0.9 GB1.0 GB

Memory %3%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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