mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 54

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

63 vs 34

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… falcon3-1b-instruct

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec50.6121.8

First chunk257 ms176 ms

TTFT257 ms176 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB0.7 GB

Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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