deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

37 vs 53

Hardware Fit

73 vs 72

Quality Score

22 vs 45

Hardware

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

MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro

CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M1 Max

Cores810

RAM23 GB32 GB

GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M1 Max

OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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

Tokens/sec18.418.6

First chunk593 ms403 ms

TTFT30.0 s10.2 s

Load time3.8 s4.3 s

Memory usage1.0 GB9.1 GB

Memory %4%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

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

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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