falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 39

Hardware Fit

98 vs 66

Quality Score

13 vs 21

Hardware

falcon:7b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon:7b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec24.321.8

TTFT256 ms9.6 s

Load time0.4 s3.5 s

Memory usage4.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %12%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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