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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 22
Hardware Fit
69 vs 50
Quality Score
54 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b deepseek-r1:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b deepseek-r1:14b
Tokens/sec30.511.4
First chunk333 msN/A
TTFT30.0 s30.0 s
Load time9.8 s1.0 s
Memory usage25.1 GB16.5 GB
Memory %52%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed
20/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong 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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