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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Excellent

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
36 vs 80
Hardware Fit
53 vs 62
Quality Score
28 vs 88

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.310.6
First chunk27 ms52 ms
TTFT20.7 s3.2 s
Load time15.4 s7.6 s
Memory usage1.0 GB1.1 GB
Memory %4%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
13/20
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

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
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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