deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

25 vs 73

Hardware Fit

46 vs 86

Quality Score

11 vs 65

Hardware

deepseek-r1:14b mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:14b mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec10.814.6

TTFT30.0 s371 ms

Load time5.3 s1.0 s

Memory usage16.5 GB13.3 GB

Memory %52%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

16/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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