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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

llama3.3:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
89 vs 73
Hardware Fit
97 vs 51
Quality Score
86 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx llama3.3:70b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM48 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx llama3.3:70b
Tokens/sec129.44.6
First chunk49 ms560 ms
TTFT49 ms560 ms
Load time0.0 s13.8 s
Memory usage20.5 GB49.5 GB
Memory %43%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

llama3.3:70b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

llama3.3:70b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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