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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
36 vs 90
Hardware Fit
53 vs 98
Quality Score
28 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM24 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.348.4
First chunk27 ms1085 ms
TTFT20.7 s1.1 s
Load time15.4 s22.2 s
Memory usage1.0 GB22.9 GB
Memory %4%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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