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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
53 vs 79
Hardware Fit
82 vs 59
Quality Score
41 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniDocker Container
CPUApple M2Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores816
RAM8 GB15 GB
GPUApple M2TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.79.3
First chunk302 ms21 ms
TTFT7.4 s3.6 s
Load time3.2 s32.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB1.8 GB
Memory %47%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

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
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
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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