deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

60 vs 66

Hardware Fit

90 vs 91

Quality Score

47 vs 55

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M5 Max

Cores618

RAM7 GB64 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec34.633.2

First chunk5314 ms7 ms

TTFT5.3 s311 ms

Load time5.1 sN/A

Memory usage1.1 GB0.5 GB

Memory %15%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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