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qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 47
Hardware Fit
87 vs 98
Quality Score
59 vs 13

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b falcon:7b
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b falcon:7b
Tokens/sec37.924.3
TTFT3.1 s256 ms
Load time1.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.9 GB4.0 GB
Memory %15%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
17/30
Memory
30/30

falcon:7b

Speed
38/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

falcon:7b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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