deepseek-r1:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:2b

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

22 vs 73

Hardware Fit

50 vs 100

Quality Score

10 vs 62

Hardware

deepseek-r1:14b qwen3.5:2b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:14b qwen3.5:2b

Tokens/sec11.430.4

TTFT30.0 s215 ms

Load time1.0 s1.8 s

Memory usage16.5 GB4.5 GB

Memory %52%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

0/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:14b

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

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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