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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 77
Hardware Fit
90 vs 67
Quality Score
47 vs 81

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores614
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec34.620.3
First chunk5314 ms4216 ms
TTFT5.3 s4.2 s
Load time5.1 sN/A
Memory usage1.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %15%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest