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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
53 vs 88
Hardware Fit
82 vs 87
Quality Score
41 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M2AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores816
RAM8 GB31 GB
GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.786.1
First chunk302 ms14 ms
TTFT7.4 s211 ms
Load time3.2 sN/A
Memory usage3.8 GB20.5 GB
Memory %47%66%

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
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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest