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qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
90 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
86 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… microsoft/phi-4-mi…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… microsoft/phi-4-mi…
Tokens/sec78.140.3
First chunk7 ms289 ms
TTFT138 ms289 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage23.9 GB2.0 GB
Memory %19%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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