deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

60 vs 53

Hardware Fit

90 vs 72

Quality Score

47 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:9b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M1 Max

Cores610

RAM7 GB32 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M1 Max

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec34.618.6

First chunk5314 ms403 ms

TTFT5.3 s10.2 s

Load time5.1 s4.3 s

Memory usage1.1 GB9.1 GB

Memory %15%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

4/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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