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Can the Apple M4 run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 14B?

FULL

9.8 GB needed of 14 GB usable — headroom for context

~14GB usable · Apple M4 · model file 9.0GB · distill 14B

~11–13 tok/s

computed roofline: 120 GB/s × 0.80–1.00 efficiency window / 9.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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