deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 55

Hardware Fit

94 vs 99

Quality Score

70 vs 36

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b llama2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:7b llama2:7b

Tokens/sec22.225.1

First chunk285 msN/A

TTFT285 ms228 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.6 GB5.8 GB

Memory %24%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama2:7b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

llama2:7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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