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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 47
Hardware Fit
100 vs 53
Quality Score
51 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec85.411.3
First chunk115 msN/A
TTFT115 ms9.2 s
Load time0.5 s0.1 s
Memory usage2.6 GB7.2 GB
Memory %8%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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