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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

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
37 vs 36
Hardware Fit
73 vs 100
Quality Score
22 vs 8

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM23 GB64 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M5 Max
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec18.455.2
First chunk593 ms210 ms
TTFT30.0 s210 ms
Load time3.8 s4.8 s
Memory usage1.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %4%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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