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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
60 vs 90
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
44 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec108.078.1
First chunk2568 ms7 ms
TTFT2.6 s138 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB23.9 GB
Memory %3%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

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

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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
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