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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
60 vs 83
Hardware Fit
90 vs 68
Quality Score
47 vs 90

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Max
Cores616
RAM7 GB128 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec34.627.6
First chunk5314 ms10 ms
TTFT5.3 s4.6 s
Load time5.1 sN/A
Memory usage1.1 GB21.0 GB
Memory %15%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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