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mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
73 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 78
Quality Score
62 vs 86

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec29.149.9
First chunk451 ms31 ms
TTFT451 ms708 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB26.6 GB
Memory %3%83%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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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