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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 59

Hardware Fit

53 vs 69

Quality Score

28 vs 54

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM24 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.330.5

First chunk27 ms333 ms

TTFT20.7 s30.0 s

Load time15.4 s9.8 s

Memory usage1.0 GB25.1 GB

Memory %4%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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