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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

36 vs 57

Hardware Fit

53 vs 61

Quality Score

28 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.330.3

First chunk27 ms205 ms

TTFT20.7 s8.7 s

Load time15.4 s5.6 s

Memory usage1.0 GB18.8 GB

Memory %4%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

30/50

TTFT

1/20

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

8/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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