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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 35.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
89 vs 86
Hardware Fit
97 vs 87
Quality Score
86 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1816
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec129.459.5
First chunk49 ms380 ms
TTFT49 ms380 ms
Load time0.0 s24.6 s
Memory usage20.5 GB20.9 GB
Memory %43%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

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

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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
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