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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
89 vs 80
Hardware Fit
97 vs 85
Quality Score
86 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1880
RAM48 GB252 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec129.465.1
First chunk49 ms289 ms
TTFT49 ms4.2 s
Load time0.0 s4.6 s
Memory usage20.5 GB5.6 GB
Memory %43%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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