deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

37 vs 47

Hardware Fit

73 vs 67

Quality Score

22 vs 38

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:8b

MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Air

CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4

Cores810

RAM23 GB32 GB

GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4

OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec18.418.7

First chunk593 msN/A

TTFT30.0 s12.1 s

Load time3.8 s1.2 s

Memory usage1.0 GB9.5 GB

Memory %4%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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