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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

36 vs 80

Hardware Fit

53 vs 77

Quality Score

28 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM24 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.3129.8

First chunk27 ms77 ms

TTFT20.7 s30.0 s

Load time15.4 s1.8 s

Memory usage1.0 GB19.7 GB

Memory %4%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

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-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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