falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

47 /100

Marginal

Hardware Fit

98/100

Quality

13/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 24.3
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.4
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 256 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.4 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 4.0 GB (12%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 550

Score breakdown

Speed

38/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction following

7/20

Structured output

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

4/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 5608dbaca7b8f3e41f35d34d515725c637853c8742697a77f203333e6affbadc

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 98/100. Overall suitability: MARGINAL (Global 47/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Poor, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Weak, Structured Output: Poor, Math: Poor, Multilingual: Weak. Warning: model produced very low accuracy on quality tasks — results may be unusable despite good hardware performance.

Warnings

Model produced very low accuracy on quality tasks — results may be unusable despite good hardware performance.

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