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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

falcon-h1 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 8, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

36 vs 57

Hardware Fit

53 vs 91

Quality Score

28 vs 42

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/sec10.316.3

First chunk27 ms2987 ms

TTFT20.7 s3.0 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

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Speed

48/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

27/30

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

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

10/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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