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

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

54 vs 72

Hardware Fit

100 vs 92

Quality Score

34 vs 63

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:1.7b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3:1.7b

Tokens/sec121.8120.7

First chunk176 ms93 ms

TTFT176 ms1.5 s

Load timeN/A2.5 s

Memory usage0.7 GB5.8 GB

Memory %2%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

12/20

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

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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