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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
83 vs 37
Hardware Fit
100 vs 73
Quality Score
76 vs 22

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M1 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec33.818.4
First chunk293 ms593 ms
TTFT293 ms30.0 s
Load time2.5 s3.8 s
Memory usage6.5 GB1.0 GB
Memory %20%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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