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mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
72 vs 89
Hardware Fit
99 vs 97
Quality Score
61 vs 86

Hardware

mlx-community/gemm… 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

mlx-community/gemm… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec86.3129.4
First chunk253 ms49 ms
TTFT253 ms49 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage1.1 GB20.5 GB
Memory %4%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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