falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

54 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

34 vs 63

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct phi4-mini:latest

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct phi4-mini:latest

Tokens/sec121.818.4

First chunk176 ms1078 ms

TTFT176 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/A6.4 s

Memory usage0.7 GB2.9 GB

Memory %2%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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