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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

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 36
Hardware Fit
91 vs 53
Quality Score
42 vs 28

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec16.310.3
First chunk2987 ms27 ms
TTFT3.0 s20.7 s
Load timeN/A15.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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