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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

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
37 vs 71
Hardware Fit
73 vs 76
Quality Score
22 vs 69

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M1 Pro
Cores810
RAM23 GB16 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M1 Pro
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.425.0
First chunk593 ms787 ms
TTFT30.0 s30.0 s
Load time3.8 s4.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %4%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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