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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
80 vs 65
Hardware Fit
77 vs 96
Quality Score
81 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM48 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
Tokens/sec129.899.6
First chunk77 ms18 ms
TTFT30.0 s1.6 s
Load time1.8 s4.8 s
Memory usage19.7 GB0.3 GB
Memory %41%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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