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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4

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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 36
Hardware Fit
82 vs 53
Quality Score
89 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec41.410.3
First chunk8 ms27 ms
TTFT3.6 s20.7 s
Load timeN/A15.4 s
Memory usage14.5 GB1.0 GB
Memory %61%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
20/30

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1-distill-qwe…

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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