deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

60 vs 36

Hardware Fit

90 vs 53

Quality Score

47 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB24 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec34.610.3

First chunk5314 ms27 ms

TTFT5.3 s20.7 s

Load time5.1 s15.4 s

Memory usage1.1 GB1.0 GB

Memory %15%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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