deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
granite3.1-dense:8b
OLLAMA GGUFgranite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M
Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
66 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
51 vs 66
Hardware
deepseek-r1:1.5b granite3.1-dense:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
deepseek-r1:1.5b granite3.1-dense:8b
Tokens/sec85.418.8
First chunk115 msN/A
TTFT115 ms308 ms
Load time0.5 s0.6 s
Memory usage2.6 GB13.0 GB
Memory %8%41%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
granite3.1-dense:8b
Speed
31/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
granite3.1-dense:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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