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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

36 vs 84

Hardware Fit

53 vs 66

Quality Score

28 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM24 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.329.4

First chunk27 ms306 ms

TTFT20.7 s4.8 s

Load time15.4 s5.3 s

Memory usage1.0 GB16.2 GB

Memory %4%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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