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qwen3.6:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 35.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
86 vs 80
Hardware Fit
87 vs 77
Quality Score
86 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14400FApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec59.5129.8
First chunk380 ms77 ms
TTFT380 ms30.0 s
Load time24.6 s1.8 s
Memory usage20.9 GB19.7 GB
Memory %66%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
17/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest