Back to leaderboard

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

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
79 vs 67
Quality Score
81 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10Mac mini
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Pro
Cores2014
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec55.520.3
First chunk528 ms4216 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.2 s
Load time32.6 sN/A
Memory usage41.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %34%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

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
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest