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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
66 vs 80
Hardware Fit
63 vs 77
Quality Score
67 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M5 Max
Cores418
RAM16 GB48 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec35.6129.8
First chunk224 ms77 ms
TTFT7.5 s30.0 s
Load time7.7 s1.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB19.7 GB
Memory %29%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

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Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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