mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
73 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
62 vs 51
Hardware
mlx-community/Yi-1… deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
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Tokens/sec29.185.4
First chunk451 ms115 ms
TTFT451 ms115 ms
Load timeN/A0.5 s
Memory usage0.9 GB2.6 GB
Memory %3%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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
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