mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

72 vs 80

Hardware Fit

95 vs 77

Quality Score

62 vs 81

Hardware

mistral:7b 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

mistral:7b qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Tokens/sec22.0129.8

First chunkN/A77 ms

TTFT261 ms30.0 s

Load time0.7 s1.8 s

Memory usage10.1 GB19.7 GB

Memory %32%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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