deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

51 vs 43

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b vicuna:7b

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 vicuna:7b

Tokens/sec85.423.4

First chunk115 msN/A

TTFT115 ms242 ms

Load time0.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage2.6 GB5.8 GB

Memory %8%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

vicuna:7b

Speed

37/50

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

vicuna:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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