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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
66 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 76

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec85.433.8
First chunk115 ms293 ms
TTFT115 ms293 ms
Load time0.5 s2.5 s
Memory usage2.6 GB6.5 GB
Memory %8%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3.5:4b

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

Quality

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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