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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

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
37 vs 64
Hardware Fit
73 vs 100
Quality Score
22 vs 49

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b smollm2:1.7b
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 smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec18.451.8
First chunk593 msN/A
TTFT30.0 s84 ms
Load time3.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB3.7 GB
Memory %4%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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