DeepSeek V4 Flash 9B distill
on M5 Pro 48GB · Ollama · 16,384 ctx
Use cases
codingtool-usemath
Summary
User compares DeepSeek V4 Flash 9B distill against its base model Qwen3.5 9B on a MacBook Pro M5 Pro with 48 GB RAM.
Both models gave the same answers on 6/8 tasks, but the distill used fewer tokens (5480 vs 8975). Throughput was near identical (44 vs 41 tok/s).
The distill was slower on open-ended tasks (1467 tokens vs 867 for a buffer overflow explanation). The base model failed arithmetic due to a token cap.