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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
51 vs 80
Hardware Fit
46 vs 77
Quality Score
53 vs 81

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM15 GB48 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec2.6129.8
First chunk5406 ms77 ms
TTFT5.4 s30.0 s
Load time27.4 s1.8 s
Memory usage4.6 GB19.7 GB
Memory %30%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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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