deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
smollm2:1.7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.7B · Q8_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
60 vs 64
Hardware Fit
90 vs 100
Quality Score
47 vs 49
Hardware
deepseek-r1:1.5b smollm2:1.7b
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 smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec34.651.8
First chunk5314 msN/A
TTFT5.3 s84 ms
Load time5.1 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.1 GB3.7 GB
Memory %15%12%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30
smollm2:1.7b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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
smollm2:1.7b
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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