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falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 1, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score
54 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 38
Quality Score
34 vs 76

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0
Cores1064
RAM32 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.83.4
First chunk176 ms4210 ms
TTFT176 ms4.2 s
Load timeN/A45.1 s
Memory usage0.7 GB22.0 GB
Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest