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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
60 vs 68
Hardware Fit
90 vs 98
Quality Score
47 vs 55

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma3:1b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec34.639.5
First chunk5314 msN/A
TTFT5.3 s333 ms
Load time5.1 s1.6 s
Memory usage1.1 GB1.3 GB
Memory %15%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

gemma3:1b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest