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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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
37 vs 59
Hardware Fit
73 vs 69
Quality Score
22 vs 54

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4 Pro
Cores814
RAM23 GB48 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4 Pro
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec18.430.5
First chunk593 ms333 ms
TTFT30.0 s30.0 s
Load time3.8 s9.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB25.1 GB
Memory %4%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest