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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
89 vs 77
Hardware Fit
97 vs 74
Quality Score
86 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx phi4:14b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM48 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx phi4:14b
Tokens/sec129.422.9
First chunk49 ms198 ms
TTFT49 ms198 ms
Load time0.0 s10.3 s
Memory usage20.5 GB14.7 GB
Memory %43%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

phi4:14b

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

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

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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