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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
89 vs 13
Hardware Fit
97 vs 41
Quality Score
86 vs 1

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores188
RAM48 GB23 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
Tokens/sec129.44.5
First chunk49 ms1413 ms
TTFT49 ms31.1 s
Load time0.0 s7.1 s
Memory usage20.5 GB3.8 GB
Memory %43%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:2b

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