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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
53 vs 23
Hardware Fit
89 vs 70
Quality Score
38 vs 3

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores146
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec52.99.8
First chunk4013 ms1206 ms
TTFT4.0 s1.2 s
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage0.6 GB4.8 GB
Memory %1%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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