Falcon 3 10B Instruct

10B

TII UAE

Technology Innovation Institute's latest Falcon. Good multilingual and code mix.

⬇ 1.8K HF downloads♥ 3 likesbartowski/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF· stats from 8/8/2026
Consumer GPUMac / Apple Silicon

33K

Max Context

2

Quant Variants

GGUF Q4_K_M

Best Quality

96.9%

Accuracy Retained

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Quantization Variants

Per-quant VRAM, quality loss, and inference speed on RTX 4090

Measured = site benchmarks · Estimated = formula · Community = public reports

FormatLevelBPWVRAMPPL LossSpeedSourceActions
GGUFQ4_K_M4.857.0 GB3.1%118 tok/sEstimated
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GPTQINT446.2 GB4.8%155 tok/sEstimated
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