deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
deepseek-v2:16b
OLLAMA GGUFdeepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
66 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 55
Hardware
deepseek-r1:1.5b deepseek-v2:16b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
deepseek-r1:1.5b deepseek-v2:16b
Tokens/sec85.456.6
First chunk115 msN/A
TTFT115 ms239 ms
Load time0.5 s1.2 s
Memory usage2.6 GB17.7 GB
Memory %8%55%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-v2:16b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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
deepseek-v2:16b
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
10/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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