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qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
91 vs 70
Hardware Fit
99 vs 93
Quality Score
87 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec56.232.9
First chunk531 ms3096 ms
TTFT531 ms3.1 s
Load time32.8 sN/A
Memory usage41.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %34%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest