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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 33

Hardware Fit

53 vs 50

Quality Score

28 vs 25

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.320.0

First chunk27 ms941 ms

TTFT20.7 s30.0 s

Load time15.4 s0.2 s

Memory usage1.0 GB20.3 GB

Memory %4%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

8/30

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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