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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Oct 1, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

Global Score
66 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 56

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b liquid/lfm2-1.2b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G513IM_G513IM
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b liquid/lfm2-1.2b
Tokens/sec85.4169.5
First chunk115 ms27 ms
TTFT115 ms77 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB3.4 GB
Memory %8%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

Speed
50/50
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

liquid/lfm2-1.2b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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