falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

54 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 79

Quality Score

34 vs 37

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.89.9

First chunk176 ms1668 ms

TTFT176 ms1.7 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB0.8 GB

Memory %2%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Speed

32/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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