deepseek-r1:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

THINKING MODEL ECO MODE

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H (Intel Core™ i5-6500)

16 GB · Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Tested on March 5, 2026

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Global Score

66 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

63/100

Quality

67/100

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Hardware

Machine: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPU: Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores: 4 total (4 perf)
Frequency: 3.2 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Arch: x64
Power Mode: low-power

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 35.6
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 224 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 7.5 s
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 7.7 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 4.6 GB (29%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1394
Thinking tokens (est.) Estimated internal reasoning tokens — models with "thinking" generate more tokens: ~1041

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

7/20

Memory

6/30

Quality

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction following

9/20

Structured output

10/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

8/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.6
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: ENTRY
Result hash: cace4b07deac3be49ae34dfa695ed2c4b6e598a329a71ca90d8c961716667c98

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 63/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 66/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Adequate, Instruction Following: Weak, Structured Output: Adequate, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Warnings

System was in low-power mode during this benchmark.

Bench Environment

Thermal: nominal Swap delta: +0.0 GB CPU load: avg 26% (peak 35%)

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