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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

yi-coder:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 70
Hardware Fit
53 vs 89
Quality Score
28 vs 62

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… yi-coder:9b
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… yi-coder:9b
Tokens/sec10.319.4
First chunk27 ms287 ms
TTFT20.7 s287 ms
Load time15.4 s0.7 s
Memory usage1.0 GB9.6 GB
Memory %4%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

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

yi-coder:9b

Speed
39/50
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

yi-coder:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest