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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 22

Hardware Fit

53 vs 50

Quality Score

28 vs 10

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.311.4

First chunk27 msN/A

TTFT20.7 s30.0 s

Load time15.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage1.0 GB16.5 GB

Memory %4%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/50

TTFT

0/20

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

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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