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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
66 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 63
Quality Score
51 vs 41

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec85.46.6
First chunk115 ms3184 ms
TTFT115 ms3.2 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %8%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
25/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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