qwen2.5:0.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit
Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
57 vs 87
Hardware Fit
100 vs 90
Quality Score
39 vs 86
Hardware
qwen2.5:0.5b 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
qwen2.5:0.5b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec165.086.5
First chunkN/A9 ms
TTFT81 ms175 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.7 GB37.9 GB
Memory %5%59%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5:0.5b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30
Quality
qwen2.5:0.5b
Reasoning
6/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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