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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

36 vs 60

Hardware Fit

53 vs 90

Quality Score

28 vs 47

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM24 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1-distil… deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec10.334.6

First chunk27 ms5314 ms

TTFT20.7 s5.3 s

Load time15.4 s5.1 s

Memory usage1.0 GB1.1 GB

Memory %4%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

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-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

4/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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