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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
59 vs 65
Hardware Fit
69 vs 92
Quality Score
54 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProiMac
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores148
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.3.1macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec30.519.6
First chunk333 ms690 ms
TTFT30.0 s690 ms
Load time9.8 s21.4 s
Memory usage25.1 GB1.0 GB
Memory %52%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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