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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

36 vs 80

Hardware Fit

53 vs 63

Quality Score

28 vs 87

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM24 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.324.0

First chunk27 ms20 ms

TTFT20.7 s4.5 s

Load time15.4 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB15.7 GB

Memory %4%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

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

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Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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