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falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
54 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
34 vs 80

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec121.825.0
First chunk176 ms357 ms
TTFT176 ms357 ms
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage0.7 GB8.4 GB
Memory %2%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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