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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
53 vs 89
Hardware Fit
82 vs 97
Quality Score
41 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2Apple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.7130.2
First chunk302 ms5 ms
TTFT7.4 s135 ms
Load time3.2 sN/A
Memory usage3.8 GB26.6 GB
Memory %47%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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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