qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Not Rec.

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

73 vs 88

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

61 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM32 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.376.7

First chunk285 ms29 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB23.9 GB

Memory %5%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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