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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
70 vs 95
Hardware Fit
66 vs 94
Quality Score
71 vs 96

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1412
RAM48 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec30.680.4
First chunk304 ms46 ms
TTFT30.0 s1.8 s
Load time10.0 sN/A
Memory usage28.1 GB21.2 GB
Memory %59%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest