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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
89 vs 20
Hardware Fit
97 vs 37
Quality Score
86 vs 12

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1832
RAM48 GB125 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec129.410.6
First chunk49 ms358 ms
TTFT49 ms13.7 s
Load time0.0 s10.8 s
Memory usage20.5 GB39.7 GB
Memory %43%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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