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falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

falcon-h1 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 8, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 58
Hardware Fit
91 vs 68
Quality Score
42 vs 54

Hardware

falcon-h1-0.5b-ins… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon-h1-0.5b-ins… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec16.316.7
First chunk2987 ms23 ms
TTFT3.0 s14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB7.8 GB
Memory %2%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Speed
48/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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