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deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 72
Hardware Fit
94 vs 89
Quality Score
70 vs 65

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b aya-expanse:8b
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 aya-expanse:8b
Tokens/sec22.219.7
First chunk285 ms350 ms
TTFT285 ms350 ms
Load time0.8 s0.9 s
Memory usage7.6 GB6.2 GB
Memory %24%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

aya-expanse:8b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
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

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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