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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
89 vs 83
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
86 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM48 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec129.490.6
First chunk49 ms159 ms
TTFT49 ms159 ms
Load time0.0 s5.8 s
Memory usage20.5 GB42.5 GB
Memory %43%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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