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deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
69 vs 36
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 8

Hardware

deepseek-v2:16b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-v2:16b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec56.655.2
First chunkN/A210 ms
TTFT239 ms210 ms
Load time1.2 s4.8 s
Memory usage17.7 GB0.9 GB
Memory %55%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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