mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 54

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

62 vs 34

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… falcon3-1b-instruct

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Yi-1… falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec29.1121.8

First chunk451 ms176 ms

TTFT451 ms176 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.9 GB0.7 GB

Memory %3%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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

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