orca-mini:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 22

Hardware Fit

98 vs 50

Quality Score

37 vs 10

Hardware

orca-mini:7b deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:7b deepseek-r1:14b

Tokens/sec24.411.4

TTFT219 ms30.0 s

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage5.8 GB16.5 GB

Memory %18%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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

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