falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

54 vs 68

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

34 vs 58

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.5:4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Tokens/sec121.842.2

First chunk176 ms201 ms

TTFT176 ms4.4 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage0.7 GB3.8 GB

Memory %2%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

7/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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