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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
70 vs 59
Hardware Fit
66 vs 63
Quality Score
71 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM48 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.618.3
First chunk304 ms4 ms
TTFT30.0 s530 ms
Load time10.0 sN/A
Memory usage28.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %59%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest