text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

59 vs 80

Hardware Fit

94 vs 77

Quality Score

44 vs 81

Hardware

text-embedding-nom… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

text-embedding-nom… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Tokens/sec45.3129.8

First chunk2440 ms77 ms

TTFT2.4 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A1.8 s

Memory usage0.0 GB19.7 GB

Memory %0%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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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