falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 73

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

34 vs 62

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:0.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec121.8145.2

First chunk176 msN/A

TTFT176 ms1.4 s

Load timeN/A0.7 s

Memory usage0.7 GB4.1 GB

Memory %2%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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