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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

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Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
22 vs 80
Hardware Fit
50 vs 77
Quality Score
10 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.4129.8
First chunkN/A77 ms
TTFT30.0 s30.0 s
Load time1.0 s1.8 s
Memory usage16.5 GB19.7 GB
Memory %52%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
20/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

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Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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