deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

55 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-v2:16b qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

deepseek-v2:16b qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec56.611.3

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT239 ms9.2 s

Load time1.2 s0.1 s

Memory usage17.7 GB7.2 GB

Memory %55%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

10/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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