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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
36 vs 81
Hardware Fit
53 vs 96
Quality Score
28 vs 75

Hardware

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MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.3109.1
First chunk27 ms190 ms
TTFT20.7 s190 ms
Load time15.4 s4.3 s
Memory usage1.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %4%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest