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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

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
37 vs 47
Hardware Fit
73 vs 53
Quality Score
22 vs 45

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:4b
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-powerunknown

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec18.411.3
First chunk593 msN/A
TTFT30.0 s9.2 s
Load time3.8 s0.1 s
Memory usage1.0 GB7.2 GB
Memory %4%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest