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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 41
Hardware Fit
53 vs 100
Quality Score
28 vs 15

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… smollm2:135m
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.3241.0
First chunk27 msN/A
TTFT20.7 s39 ms
Load time15.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %4%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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