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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

ornith-1.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 69

Hardware Fit

53 vs 95

Quality Score

28 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.322.2

First chunk27 ms341 ms

TTFT20.7 s341 ms

Load time15.4 s4.8 s

Memory usage1.0 GB7.1 GB

Memory %4%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

ornith-1.5:9b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

Quality

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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

ornith-1.5:9b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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