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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

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Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

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Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
36 vs 82
Hardware Fit
53 vs 80
Quality Score
28 vs 83

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.355.2
First chunk27 ms4 ms
TTFT20.7 s30.0 s
Load time15.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB30.3 GB
Memory %4%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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