falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

54 vs 46

Hardware Fit

100 vs 93

Quality Score

34 vs 26

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct gemma3:4b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct gemma3:4b

Tokens/sec121.814.9

First chunk176 ms2204 ms

TTFT176 ms2.2 s

Load timeN/A2.0 s

Memory usage0.7 GB2.6 GB

Memory %2%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:4b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

29/30

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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