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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 65
Hardware Fit
66 vs 96
Quality Score
71 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec30.623.8
First chunk304 ms232 ms
TTFT30.0 s232 ms
Load time10.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage28.1 GB5.3 GB
Memory %59%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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