qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:7b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
55 vs 77
Hardware Fit
87 vs 94
Quality Score
41 vs 70
Hardware
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec68.222.2
First chunk3268 ms285 ms
TTFT3.3 s285 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage0.6 GB7.6 GB
Memory %2%24%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30
deepseek-r1:7b
Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
deepseek-r1:7b
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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