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Qwen 2.5 14B ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence. Historical baseline selected; model picker is focused on current-market choices.

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29 ranked MacsUse the strongest current runtime evidence for each row.27 other historical models hiddenBaselinesStatic paths cover only canonical model pages; sort and quantization stay as query state.

Historical baseline selected: Qwen 2.5 14B. Default model choices remain current-market; other historical models stay hidden.

Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Headroom	Context	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	291	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	241.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$7,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 241.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	227	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	177.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$6,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 177.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	163	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	113.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 113.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB 16-inch	163	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	113.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$5,399	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 113.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	163	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	113.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$5,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 113.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	131	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	81.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 81.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	99	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	49.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 49.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
8	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	99	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	49.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 49.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
9	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$1,599	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
10	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
11	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
12	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
13	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
14	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	83	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	33.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 33.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
15	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	71	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	21.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$1,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 21.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
16	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	71	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	21.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 21.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
17	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	71	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	21.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 21.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
18	Mac Mini M4 32GB	67	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	17.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$799	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 17.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
19	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	67	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	17.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$1,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 17.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
20	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	67	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	17.0 GB	131k	Fit-first	$1,699	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 17.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
21	Mac Mini M4 24GB	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$599	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
22	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$1,299	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
23	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$1,399	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
24	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$1,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
25	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$1,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
26	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	59	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	9.0 GB	67k	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 9.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
27	Mac Mini M4 16GB	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	3.5 GB	20k	Fit-first	$499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
28	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	3.5 GB	20k	Fit-first	$1,099	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
29	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	3.5 GB	20k	Fit-first	$1,299	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 3.5 GB headroom remains at this quantization.

Qwen 2.5 14B — 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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Quick take

Qwen 2.5 14B is cataloged because Apple Silicon buyers are already searching for it. Qwen 2.5 14B: 1 practitioner claim; 1 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 64GB, M4, M4 Pro, Mac; runtime mentions: MLX; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, runtime_tuning. Use the ranking above for the current best Mac path, then open Bench when direct evidence lands.

1 practitioner signal tracked so far, no benchmarks yet.

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Catalog record

14.8BTotal params

DenseActive params

131,072Context window

2024-09-19Release date

This is a reference-only model record. It remains useful for historical benchmarks, migration checks, and audit context, but it is excluded from current frontier packs.

No Apple Silicon benchmark rows are published for this model yet.

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

Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains.

Official source · Raw model card

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMTransformers

Official specs

Type: Causal Language Models.
Scale: 14.7B.
Context: Full 131,072 tokens and generation 8192 tokens.
Architecture: transformers with RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and Attention QKV bias.
Total parameters: 14.7B.
Max input: Full 131,072 tokens and generation 8192 tokens.

Official takeaways

Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains.
Please refer to our Documentation for usage if you are not familar with vLLM.
To handle extensive inputs exceeding 32,768 tokens, we utilize YaRN, a technique for enhancing model length extrapolation, ensuring optimal performance on lengthy texts.
Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: This repo contains the instruction-tuned 14B Qwen2.5 model, which has the following features: Type: Causal Language Models Training Stage: Pretraining & Post-trainin…

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

Field reality on Apple Silicon

Qwen 2.5 14B: 1 practitioner claim; 1 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 64GB, M4, M4 Pro, Mac; runtime mentions: MLX; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, runtime_tuning.

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0Field reports

1Practitioner signals

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What practitioners keep saying

An M4 Pro mini 64GB owner says Qwen 2.5 14B was their best quality/speed choice with MLX speculative decoding enabled, but the throughput evidence is published as a range rather than one reproducible run.
The same post says 32B models also run on the machine but at less than half the 14B speed, making this a practical fallback signal rather than a canonical benchmark row.

Apple Silicon field sources

r/LocalLLaMA
2025-02-17 · Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB · MLX
Qwen 2.5 14B remains a serious Apple-Silicon sweet-spot model for people who want quality and responsive MLX speculative-decoding speed on M4 Pro-class memory tiers without jumping to larger models.

Runtime mentions in the field

MLX

Hardware mentioned in reports

64GBM4M4 ProMacMac Mini

Current published coverage

This reference record stays published for audit and migration context, but Apple Silicon speed coverage is still missing.

Related qwen-2.5 models with published pages: Qwen 2.5 72B · Qwen 2.5 7B

Raw benchmark rows for Qwen 2.5 14B

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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