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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q8_0

Excellent

Apr 26, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

36 vs 81

Hardware Fit

53 vs 100

Quality Score

28 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMac miniASUS

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM24 GB31 GB

GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]

OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.335.6

First chunk27 ms52 ms

TTFT20.7 s256 ms

Load time15.4 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB8.6 GB

Memory %4%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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