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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
60 vs 62
Hardware Fit
90 vs 100
Quality Score
47 vs 46

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M1 Max
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M1 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec34.667.6
First chunk5314 ms209 ms
TTFT5.3 s209 ms
Load time5.1 s1.9 s
Memory usage1.1 GB2.6 GB
Memory %15%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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