mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.6:35b-mlx
OLLAMA GGUFnvfp4
Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
50 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 77
Quality Score
29 vs 81
Hardware
mlx-community/stab… 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
mlx-community/stab… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec93.6129.8
First chunk166 ms77 ms
TTFT166 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage0.7 GB19.7 GB
Memory %2%41%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30
Quality
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest