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deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
26 vs 48
Hardware Fit
50 vs 53
Quality Score
10 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-r1:14b qwen3:4b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

deepseek-r1:14b qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec11.411.3
TTFT30.0 s9.2 s
Load time1.0 s0.1 s
Memory usage16.5 GB7.2 GB
Memory %52%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed
20/40
TTFT
0/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/40
TTFT
6/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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