qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

81 vs 22

Hardware Fit

84 vs 50

Quality Score

79 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:14b

Tokens/sec20.411.4

First chunk3034 msN/A

TTFT3.0 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A1.0 s

Memory usage5.6 GB16.5 GB

Memory %17%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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