falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

34 vs 33

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.825.4

First chunk176 ms266 ms

TTFT176 ms266 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB0.0 GB

Memory %2%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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