deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 47

Hardware Fit

94 vs 53

Quality Score

70 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.211.3

First chunk285 msN/A

TTFT285 ms9.2 s

Load time0.8 s0.1 s

Memory usage7.6 GB7.2 GB

Memory %24%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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