deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 59

Hardware Fit

63 vs 65

Quality Score

67 vs 57

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMac mini

CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4

Cores410

RAM16 GB24 GB

GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:7b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec35.614.3

First chunk224 ms24 ms

TTFT7.5 s13.4 s

Load time7.7 s13.3 s

Memory usage4.6 GB2.5 GB

Memory %29%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

6/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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