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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
70 vs 80
Hardware Fit
66 vs 77
Quality Score
71 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM48 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.6129.8
First chunk304 ms77 ms
TTFT30.0 s30.0 s
Load time10.0 s1.8 s
Memory usage28.1 GB19.7 GB
Memory %59%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-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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