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deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
22 vs 41
Hardware Fit
50 vs 100
Quality Score
10 vs 15

Hardware

deepseek-r1:14b smollm2:135m
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.4241.0
TTFT30.0 s39 ms
Load time1.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage16.5 GB0.6 GB
Memory %52%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:14b

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

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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