M5Stack LLM8850 / DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B
Can a M5Stack LLM8850 run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B?
Yes, at a comfortable chat speed. Measured generation speed: 13.29 tok/s across 1 public run.
Rule of thumb: 10+ tok/s feels like a chat; 4–10 is usable for assistants and automations; under 4 is batch-job territory. Speeds depend on quantization, runtime, context length and cooling. Check each source.
| Board | Quant | Runtime | Gen tok/s | Prompt tok/s | TTFT ms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M5Stack LLM8850 M5Stack LLM8850 M.2 card (AX8850) | W4A16 | StackFlow | 13.29 | – | – | source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17 |
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B on other boards
- Rockchip RK3588 11.5 tok/s best
- Jetson Orin Nano Super 9.59 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 9.04 tok/s best
- Raspberry Pi 5 + AI HAT+ 2 7.05 tok/s best
- M5Stack Module LLM 3.57 tok/s best
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