qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 71

Hardware Fit

77 vs 86

Quality Score

81 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx mistral-nemo:12b

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 mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec129.814.6

First chunk77 msN/A

TTFT30.0 s371 ms

Load time1.8 s1.0 s

Memory usage19.7 GB13.3 GB

Memory %41%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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