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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 57
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec85.4126.4
First chunk115 ms139 ms
TTFT115 ms139 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %8%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
10/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest