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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
81 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
73 vs 86

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14400FApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec70.2129.4
First chunk58 ms49 ms
TTFT58 ms49 ms
Load time4.1 s0.0 s
Memory usage4.9 GB20.5 GB
Memory %15%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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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