falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

54 vs 85

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

34 vs 94

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM32 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Tokens/sec121.813.6

First chunk176 ms16 ms

TTFT176 ms558 ms

Load timeN/A12.3 s

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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