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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
89 vs 62
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
86 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
Cores1810
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec129.467.6
First chunk49 ms209 ms
TTFT49 ms209 ms
Load time0.0 s1.9 s
Memory usage20.5 GB2.6 GB
Memory %43%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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