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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
37 vs 87
Hardware Fit
73 vs 83
Quality Score
22 vs 88

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4 Max
Cores816
RAM23 GB128 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4 Max
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec18.429.1
First chunk593 ms9 ms
TTFT30.0 s650 ms
Load time3.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB21.0 GB
Memory %4%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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