falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

34 vs 29

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/sec121.893.6

First chunk176 ms166 ms

TTFT176 ms166 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB0.7 GB

Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

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Reasoning

7/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

3/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest