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qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
72 vs 89
Hardware Fit
89 vs 97
Quality Score
64 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-vl:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineHP HP Z8 G4 WorkstationMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Xeon® Gold 6230Apple M5 Max
Cores8018
RAM252 GB48 GB
GPUTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:8b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec68.2129.4
First chunk285 ms49 ms
TTFT2.0 s49 ms
Load time42.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage7.1 GB20.5 GB
Memory %3%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong 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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