deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

37 vs 55

Hardware Fit

73 vs 100

Quality Score

22 vs 36

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b phi-3.5-mini-instr…

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 phi-3.5-mini-instr…

Tokens/sec18.443.4

First chunk593 ms359 ms

TTFT30.0 s359 ms

Load time3.8 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB2.0 GB

Memory %4%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

6/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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