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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
66 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
51 vs 74

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook Air
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec85.448.5
First chunk115 ms202 ms
TTFT115 ms4.3 s
Load time0.5 s4.2 s
Memory usage2.6 GB5.5 GB
Memory %8%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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