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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

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Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
80 vs 47
Hardware Fit
77 vs 51
Quality Score
81 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx deepseek-r1:70b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM48 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx deepseek-r1:70b
Tokens/sec129.84.7
First chunk77 ms557 ms
TTFT30.0 s557 ms
Load time1.8 s52.6 s
Memory usage19.7 GB49.5 GB
Memory %41%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

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Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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