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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 22
Hardware Fit
89 vs 50
Quality Score
65 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:14b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b deepseek-r1:14b
Tokens/sec28.911.4
First chunk338 msN/A
TTFT338 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A1.0 s
Memory usage6.1 GB16.5 GB
Memory %10%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:14b

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

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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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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