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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
36 vs 74
Hardware Fit
53 vs 99
Quality Score
28 vs 63

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… llama3.2:3b
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… llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec10.321.1
First chunk27 ms1032 ms
TTFT20.7 s1.0 s
Load time15.4 s8.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB2.4 GB
Memory %4%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest