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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 79
Hardware Fit
53 vs 92
Quality Score
28 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.322.5
First chunk27 ms529 ms
TTFT20.7 s529 ms
Load time15.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB4.0 GB
Memory %4%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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