deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 62

Hardware Fit

63 vs 35

Quality Score

67 vs 73

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b qwen3.5-4b-mlx

MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMac mini

CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4 Pro

Cores414

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4 Pro

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:7b qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec35.60.0

First chunk224 ms5548 ms

TTFT7.5 s5.5 s

Load time7.7 sN/A

Memory usage4.6 GB2.9 GB

Memory %29%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

6/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

10/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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