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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
36 vs 66
Hardware Fit
53 vs 63
Quality Score
28 vs 67

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

deepseek-r1-distil… deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec10.335.6
First chunk27 ms224 ms
TTFT20.7 s7.5 s
Load time15.4 s7.7 s
Memory usage1.0 GB4.6 GB
Memory %4%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

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

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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