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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

36 vs 84

Hardware Fit

53 vs 93

Quality Score

28 vs 80

Hardware

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MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM24 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.392.7

First chunk27 ms286 ms

TTFT20.7 s1.5 s

Load time15.4 s15.3 s

Memory usage1.0 GB20.3 GB

Memory %4%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

13/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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