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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

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Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
47 vs 80
Hardware Fit
51 vs 77
Quality Score
45 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB48 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec4.7129.8
First chunk557 ms77 ms
TTFT557 ms30.0 s
Load time52.6 s1.8 s
Memory usage49.5 GB19.7 GB
Memory %41%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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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