falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

54 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 93

Quality Score

34 vs 74

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct rnj-1:8b

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 rnj-1:8b

Tokens/sec121.822.3

First chunk176 ms404 ms

TTFT176 ms404 ms

Load timeN/A3.7 s

Memory usage0.7 GB8.3 GB

Memory %2%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

rnj-1:8b

Speed

49/50

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

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

5/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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