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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

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 65
Hardware Fit
91 vs 96
Quality Score
42 vs 52

Hardware

falcon-h1-0.5b-ins… starling-lm:7b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 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… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec16.323.8
First chunk2987 ms232 ms
TTFT3.0 s232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB5.3 GB
Memory %2%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon-h1-0.5b-instruct

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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