deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
60 vs 63
Hardware Fit
90 vs 97
Quality Score
47 vs 49
Hardware
deepseek-r1:1.5b starling-lm:7b
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 Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
deepseek-r1:1.5b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec34.623.7
First chunk5314 msN/A
TTFT5.3 s234 ms
Load time5.1 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %15%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
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
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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