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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 80

Hardware Fit

53 vs 93

Quality Score

28 vs 74

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.322.3

First chunk27 ms404 ms

TTFT20.7 s404 ms

Load time15.4 s3.7 s

Memory usage1.0 GB8.3 GB

Memory %4%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

rnj-1:8b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

24/30

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

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

5/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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