falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

34 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.840.3

First chunk176 ms289 ms

TTFT176 ms289 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB2.0 GB

Memory %2%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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