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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 65

Hardware Fit

53 vs 96

Quality Score

28 vs 52

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… starling-lm:7b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1-distil… starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec10.323.8

First chunk27 ms232 ms

TTFT20.7 s232 ms

Load time15.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %4%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

3/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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