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

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 85

Hardware Fit

53 vs 77

Quality Score

28 vs 89

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… gemma4:26b

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1-distil… gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec10.324.5

First chunk27 ms1481 ms

TTFT20.7 s1.5 s

Load time15.4 s24.7 s

Memory usage1.0 GB20.3 GB

Memory %4%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

8/30

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

View deepseek-r1-distil… details | View gemma4:26b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest