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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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
37 vs 52
Hardware Fit
73 vs 100
Quality Score
22 vs 31

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
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 qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec18.4257.5
First chunk593 ms99 ms
TTFT30.0 s99 ms
Load time3.8 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB0.3 GB
Memory %4%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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