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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

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
37 vs 65
Hardware Fit
73 vs 92
Quality Score
22 vs 54

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWiMac
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores88
RAM23 GB32 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 15.7.3
Archx64x64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec18.419.6
First chunk593 ms690 ms
TTFT30.0 s690 ms
Load time3.8 s21.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %4%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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