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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
70 vs 72
Hardware Fit
66 vs 77
Quality Score
71 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM48 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec30.621.5
First chunk304 ms368 ms
TTFT30.0 s368 ms
Load time10.0 s6.9 s
Memory usage28.1 GB12.9 GB
Memory %59%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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