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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

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Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

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Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
36 vs 80
Hardware Fit
53 vs 79
Quality Score
28 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM24 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.355.5
First chunk27 ms528 ms
TTFT20.7 s30.0 s
Load time15.4 s32.6 s
Memory usage1.0 GB41.0 GB
Memory %4%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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