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mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
53 vs 89
Hardware Fit
99 vs 97
Quality Score
33 vs 86

Hardware

mlx-community/Nanb… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Nanb… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec25.4130.2
First chunk266 ms5 ms
TTFT266 ms135 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB26.6 GB
Memory %0%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Quality

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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