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falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
54 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
34 vs 21

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/sec121.844.4
First chunk176 ms336 ms
TTFT176 ms336 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.1 GB
Memory %2%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

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

mlx-community/quantized…

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

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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