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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
89 vs 22
Hardware Fit
97 vs 69
Quality Score
86 vs 2

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM48 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec129.49.6
First chunk49 ms1300 ms
TTFT49 ms1.3 s
Load time0.0 s19.9 s
Memory usage20.5 GB4.8 GB
Memory %43%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest