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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
65 vs 89
Hardware Fit
92 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineiMacMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.6129.4
First chunk690 ms49 ms
TTFT690 ms49 ms
Load time21.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB20.5 GB
Memory %3%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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