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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 79
Hardware Fit
97 vs 98
Quality Score
86 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1812
RAM48 GB24 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec129.441.4
First chunk49 ms257 ms
TTFT49 ms257 ms
Load time0.0 s5.2 s
Memory usage20.5 GB9.0 GB
Memory %43%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest