deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

69 vs 46

Hardware Fit

100 vs 61

Quality Score

55 vs 40

Hardware

deepseek-v2:16b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-v2:16b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec56.67.8

First chunkN/A1625 ms

TTFT239 ms1.6 s

Load time1.2 s21.8 s

Memory usage17.7 GB5.2 GB

Memory %55%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

Quality

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

10/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

1/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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