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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 360M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
36 vs 48
Hardware Fit
53 vs 98
Quality Score
28 vs 26

Hardware

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MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.320.0
First chunk27 ms1116 ms
TTFT20.7 s1.1 s
Load time15.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB0.3 GB
Memory %4%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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$ metrillm

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