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smollm2:135m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
41 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
15 vs 86

Hardware

smollm2:135m qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:135m qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec241.0129.4
First chunkN/A49 ms
TTFT39 ms49 ms
Load time0.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %2%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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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