falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

34 vs 45

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec121.811.3

First chunk176 msN/A

TTFT176 ms9.2 s

Load timeN/A0.1 s

Memory usage0.7 GB7.2 GB

Memory %2%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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