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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

36 vs 75

Hardware Fit

53 vs 50

Quality Score

28 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM24 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.34.4

First chunk27 ms529 ms

TTFT20.7 s529 ms

Load time15.4 s49.7 s

Memory usage1.0 GB54.0 GB

Memory %4%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:72b

Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

26/30

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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