mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 36

Hardware Fit

99 vs 53

Quality Score

61 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec86.310.3

First chunk253 ms27 ms

TTFT253 ms20.7 s

Load timeN/A15.4 s

Memory usage1.1 GB1.0 GB

Memory %4%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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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

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