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qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 66
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec90.685.4
First chunk159 ms115 ms
TTFT159 ms115 ms
Load time5.8 s0.5 s
Memory usage42.5 GB2.6 GB
Memory %44%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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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