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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

36 vs 90

Hardware Fit

53 vs 98

Quality Score

28 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM24 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.386.6

First chunk27 ms13 ms

TTFT20.7 s143 ms

Load time15.4 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB23.9 GB

Memory %4%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

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

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Reasoning

18/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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