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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 22
Hardware Fit
77 vs 50
Quality Score
35 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b deepseek-r1:14b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b deepseek-r1:14b
Tokens/sec18.911.4
First chunk316 msN/A
TTFT13.0 s30.0 s
Load time3.7 s1.0 s
Memory usage5.9 GB16.5 GB
Memory %37%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed
20/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:14b

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
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