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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

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
37 vs 79
Hardware Fit
73 vs 98
Quality Score
22 vs 71

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b ministral-3:8b
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4 Pro
Cores812
RAM23 GB24 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4 Pro
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec18.441.4
First chunk593 ms257 ms
TTFT30.0 s257 ms
Load time3.8 s5.2 s
Memory usage1.0 GB9.0 GB
Memory %4%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest