falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

54 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 77

Quality Score

34 vs 81

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.6:35b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Tokens/sec121.8129.8

First chunk176 ms77 ms

TTFT176 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A1.8 s

Memory usage0.7 GB19.7 GB

Memory %2%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

11/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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