deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

66 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

51 vs 55

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec85.433.2

First chunk115 ms7 ms

TTFT115 ms311 ms

Load time0.5 sN/A

Memory usage2.6 GB0.5 GB

Memory %8%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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