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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 52
Hardware Fit
69 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 31

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec30.5257.5
First chunk333 ms99 ms
TTFT30.0 s99 ms
Load time9.8 sN/A
Memory usage25.1 GB0.3 GB
Memory %52%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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