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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
66 vs 59
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
51 vs 42

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma3:1b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec85.434.0
First chunk115 ms1876 ms
TTFT115 ms1.9 s
Load time0.5 s1.7 s
Memory usage2.6 GB0.8 GB
Memory %8%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

gemma3:1b

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
7/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest