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deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
66 vs 37
Hardware Fit
63 vs 73
Quality Score
67 vs 22

Hardware

deepseek-r1:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores48
RAM16 GB23 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSFedora Linux 43
Archx64x64
Power Modelow-powerlow-power

Performance

deepseek-r1:7b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec35.618.4
First chunk224 ms593 ms
TTFT7.5 s30.0 s
Load time7.7 s3.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %29%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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