falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

54 vs 90

Hardware Fit

100 vs 87

Quality Score

34 vs 91

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct gemma4:e4b

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 gemma4:e4b

Tokens/sec121.835.7

First chunk176 ms661 ms

TTFT176 ms6.5 s

Load timeN/A6.1 s

Memory usage0.7 GB3.1 GB

Memory %2%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

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

gemma4:e4b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest