deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

37 vs 70

Hardware Fit

73 vs 93

Quality Score

22 vs 60

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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 qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Tokens/sec18.432.9

First chunk593 ms3096 ms

TTFT30.0 s3.1 s

Load time3.8 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB2.5 GB

Memory %4%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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