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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
83 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
76 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec33.8130.2
First chunk293 ms5 ms
TTFT293 ms135 ms
Load time2.5 sN/A
Memory usage6.5 GB26.6 GB
Memory %20%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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