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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
62 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
46 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b deepseek-v2:16b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b deepseek-v2:16b
Tokens/sec65.856.6
First chunk230 msN/A
TTFT230 ms239 ms
Load time1.5 s1.2 s
Memory usage2.6 GB17.7 GB
Memory %8%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
10/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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