deepseek-r1:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 81

Hardware Fit

51 vs 84

Quality Score

45 vs 79

Hardware

deepseek-r1:70b qwen3.5-9b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air

CPUCortex-X925Apple M4

Cores2010

RAM122 GB32 GB

GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4

OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec4.720.4

First chunk557 ms3034 ms

TTFT557 ms3.0 s

Load time52.6 sN/A

Memory usage49.5 GB5.6 GB

Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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