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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

phi3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 63
Hardware Fit
69 vs 83
Quality Score
54 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b phi3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b phi3:14b
Tokens/sec30.512.7
First chunk333 msN/A
TTFT30.0 s434 ms
Load time9.8 s0.9 s
Memory usage25.1 GB17.7 GB
Memory %52%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

phi3:14b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

phi3:14b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
7/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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