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aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 77
Hardware Fit
89 vs 94
Quality Score
65 vs 70

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec19.722.2
First chunk350 ms285 ms
TTFT350 ms285 ms
Load time0.9 s0.8 s
Memory usage6.2 GB7.6 GB
Memory %20%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

aya-expanse:8b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

deepseek-r1:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-r1:7b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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