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falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
54 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
34 vs 78

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec121.890.6
First chunk176 ms159 ms
TTFT176 ms159 ms
Load timeN/A5.8 s
Memory usage0.7 GB42.5 GB
Memory %2%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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