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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence.

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28 ranked MacsUse the strongest current runtime evidence for each row.Static paths cover only canonical model pages; sort and quantization stay as query state.

Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	273	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$7,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 223.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	209	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$6,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 159.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	145	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 95.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	145	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$5,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 95.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	113	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 63.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	81	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 31.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	81	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 31.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
8	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,599	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
9	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
10	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
11	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
12	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
13	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	65	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 15.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
14	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	53	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 8.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
15	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	53	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 8.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
16	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	53	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 8.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
17	Mac Mini M4 32GB	51	6bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$799	6bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 6.6 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
18	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	51	6bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,499	6bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 6.6 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
19	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	51	6bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,699	6bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 6.6 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
20	Mac Mini M4 24GB	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$599	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
21	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,299	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
22	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,399	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
23	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,499	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
24	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,999	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
25	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	42	Q4_K_M	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 4.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
26	Mac Mini M4 16GB	12	Q2_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$499	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
27	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	12	Q2_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,099	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
28	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	12	Q2_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,299	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B — ranking first, catalog record below

Start with the ranked Mac table above. Use the rest of this page to inspect raw Apple Silicon coverage and model metadata.

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What this page answers best

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B is cataloged because Apple Silicon buyers are already searching for it. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B: 1 practitioner claim; 1 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 24GB, 64GB, 128GB, M1 Max; runtime mentions: LM Studio, MLX, Ollama; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, model_comparison, runtime_tuning. Use the ranking above for the current best Mac path, then open Bench when direct evidence lands.

Evidence state: 1 practitioner signal tracked, but no published benchmark rows yet.

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Catalog record

32.8BTotal params

DenseActive params

131,072Context window

2025-01-20Release date

No Apple Silicon benchmark rows are published for this model yet. It is kept visible here because it is part of the current frontier catalog.

What this model is, and what Apple Silicon users are actually seeing

Official model cards tell you what the model is for and which software stacks it targets. Field reality below shows how much Apple Silicon evidence we have so far.

Official brief

We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrated remarkable performance on reasoning.

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codingreasoning

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMSGLangTransformers

Official takeaways

DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrated remarkable performance on reasoning.
We demonstrate that the reasoning patterns of larger models can be distilled into smaller models, resulting in better performance compared to the reasoning patterns discovered through RL on small models.
We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1.
Please visit DeepSeek-V3 repo for more information about running DeepSeek-R1 locally.

Official model cards describe intent, capabilities, and supported stacks. They do not prove Apple Silicon speed by themselves.

Field reality on Apple Silicon

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B: 1 practitioner claim; 1 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 24GB, 64GB, 128GB, M1 Max; runtime mentions: LM Studio, MLX, Ollama; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, model_comparison, runtime_tuning.

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0Field reports

1Practitioner signals

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What practitioners keep saying

Reported Apple numbers include about 19 tok/s on M3 Max at MLX 4-bit, about 15.9 tok/s on M3 Max with Q4_K_M GGUF, and about 11.9 tok/s on M1 Max 64GB with Ollama Q4_K_M.
The same thread shows the model staying relevant across older and newer Macs rather than only on one flagship tier.

Runtime mentions in the field

LM StudioMLXOllama

Hardware mentioned in reports

24GB64GB128GBM1 MaxM4Mac

What would improve confidence

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Current published coverage

This page stays published because the model is in the frontier catalog, but Apple Silicon speed coverage is still missing.

Raw benchmark rows for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Rows stay below the ranking because this page is answer-first. Use them to inspect exact chips, quantizations, runtimes, and sources.

No benchmark rows are published yet for this model. The ranking above still shows the best current Mac fit path, but the benchmark section stays empty until direct Apple Silicon measurements land.

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