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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 78
Hardware Fit
90 vs 72
Quality Score
47 vs 81

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M2 Pro
Cores610
RAM7 GB16 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M2 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec34.626.9
First chunk5314 ms222 ms
TTFT5.3 s222 ms
Load time5.1 s0.1 s
Memory usage1.1 GB15.4 GB
Memory %15%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
2/30

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest