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qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

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Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

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Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 36
Hardware Fit
79 vs 53
Quality Score
81 vs 28

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 deepseek-r1-distil…
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

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Tokens/sec55.510.3
First chunk528 ms27 ms
TTFT30.0 s20.7 s
Load time32.6 s15.4 s
Memory usage41.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %34%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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