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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e2b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 82

Hardware Fit

53 vs 99

Quality Score

28 vs 75

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.370.4

First chunk27 ms96 ms

TTFT20.7 s96 ms

Load time15.4 s2.5 s

Memory usage1.0 GB5.7 GB

Memory %4%36%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

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

gemma4:e2b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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