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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 84
Hardware Fit
53 vs 82
Quality Score
28 vs 85

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.327.2
First chunk27 ms732 ms
TTFT20.7 s8.1 s
Load time15.4 s3.5 s
Memory usage1.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %4%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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