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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
89 vs 79
Hardware Fit
97 vs 57
Quality Score
86 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1832
RAM48 GB125 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec129.410.7
First chunk49 ms341 ms
TTFT49 ms341 ms
Load time0.0 s10.2 s
Memory usage20.5 GB39.7 GB
Memory %43%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
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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