falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-1.7b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

54 vs 19

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

34 vs 0

Hardware

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3-1.7b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon3-1b-instruct qwen3-1.7b

Tokens/sec121.85.9

First chunk176 ms2111 ms

TTFT176 ms2.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB1.2 GB

Memory %2%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-1.7b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

24/30

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

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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