qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

72 vs 37

Hardware Fit

51 vs 73

Quality Score

81 vs 22

Hardware

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

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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

Tokens/sec14.418.4

First chunk4 ms593 ms

TTFT824 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A3.8 s

Memory usage48.3 GB1.0 GB

Memory %151%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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