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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
60 vs 74
Hardware Fit
90 vs 94
Quality Score
47 vs 65

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b hermes3:8b
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 hermes3:8b
Tokens/sec34.622.3
First chunk5314 ms296 ms
TTFT5.3 s296 ms
Load time5.1 s0.8 s
Memory usage1.1 GB10.2 GB
Memory %15%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
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

hermes3:8b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest