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

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

53 vs 37

Hardware Fit

72 vs 73

Quality Score

45 vs 22

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M1 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:9b deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec18.618.4

First chunk403 ms593 ms

TTFT10.2 s30.0 s

Load time4.3 s3.8 s

Memory usage9.1 GB1.0 GB

Memory %28%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

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

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

3/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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