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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 79
Hardware Fit
77 vs 92
Quality Score
81 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-7b-i…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-7b-i…
Tokens/sec129.822.5
First chunk77 ms529 ms
TTFT30.0 s529 ms
Load time1.8 sN/A
Memory usage19.7 GB4.0 GB
Memory %41%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

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

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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