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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 35.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
53 vs 86
Hardware Fit
82 vs 87
Quality Score
41 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores816
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.759.5
First chunk302 ms380 ms
TTFT7.4 s380 ms
Load time3.2 s24.6 s
Memory usage3.8 GB20.9 GB
Memory %47%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
17/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest