falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

54 vs 79

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

34 vs 70

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:1.7b

MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB8 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:1.7b

Tokens/sec121.8188.0

First chunk176 ms108 ms

TTFT176 ms1.2 s

Load timeN/A7.5 s

Memory usage0.7 GB1.6 GB

Memory %2%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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