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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
80 vs 74
Hardware Fit
77 vs 98
Quality Score
81 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx phi4-mini:latest
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM48 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx phi4-mini:latest
Tokens/sec129.818.4
First chunk77 ms1078 ms
TTFT30.0 s1.1 s
Load time1.8 s6.4 s
Memory usage19.7 GB2.9 GB
Memory %41%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

phi4-mini:latest

Speed
50/50
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

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak 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