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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 60
Hardware Fit
90 vs 80
Quality Score
47 vs 52

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores614
RAM7 GB48 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec34.6227.0
First chunk5314 ms60 ms
TTFT5.3 s30.0 s
Load time5.1 s0.7 s
Memory usage1.1 GB2.6 GB
Memory %15%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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