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qwen3.6:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
76 vs 55
Hardware Fit
77 vs 100
Quality Score
76 vs 36

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec72.743.4
First chunk147 ms359 ms
TTFT30.0 s359 ms
Load time5.7 sN/A
Memory usage19.6 GB2.0 GB
Memory %41%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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