qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

53 vs 60

Hardware Fit

81 vs 90

Quality Score

41 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M2Cortex-A78AE

Cores86

RAM8 GB7 GB

GPUApple M2Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec24.834.6

First chunk317 ms5314 ms

TTFT7.4 s5.3 s

Load time0.0 s5.1 s

Memory usage3.9 GB1.1 GB

Memory %49%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

25/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

4/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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