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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 66
Hardware Fit
67 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b 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

qwen3.5:27b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec4.485.4
First chunkN/A115 ms
TTFT1.1 s115 ms
Load time13.2 s0.5 s
Memory usage22.7 GB2.6 GB
Memory %71%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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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