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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
53 vs 60
Hardware Fit
72 vs 90
Quality Score
45 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M1 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec18.634.6
First chunk403 ms5314 ms
TTFT10.2 s5.3 s
Load time4.3 s5.1 s
Memory usage9.1 GB1.1 GB
Memory %28%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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