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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
79 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
70 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM8 GB48 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec188.0129.4
First chunk108 ms49 ms
TTFT1.2 s49 ms
Load time7.5 s0.0 s
Memory usage1.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %21%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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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