deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

37 vs 58

Hardware Fit

73 vs 68

Quality Score

22 vs 54

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMac mini

CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4

Cores810

RAM23 GB24 GB

GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4

OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec18.416.7

First chunk593 ms23 ms

TTFT30.0 s14.1 s

Load time3.8 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB7.8 GB

Memory %4%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

9/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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