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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 88

Hardware Fit

53 vs 86

Quality Score

28 vs 89

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1012

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.330.0

First chunk27 ms686 ms

TTFT20.7 s7.1 s

Load time15.4 s5.4 s

Memory usage1.0 GB7.1 GB

Memory %4%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

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-it-qat

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

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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