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qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 58
Hardware Fit
79 vs 68
Quality Score
81 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10Mac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB24 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec55.516.7
First chunk528 ms23 ms
TTFT30.0 s14.1 s
Load time32.6 sN/A
Memory usage41.0 GB7.8 GB
Memory %34%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest