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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 66
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 51

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineiMacMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M4
Cores810
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec19.685.4
First chunk690 ms115 ms
TTFT690 ms115 ms
Load time21.4 s0.5 s
Memory usage1.0 GB2.6 GB
Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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