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Best Macs for this model

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence.

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28 ranked MacsUse the strongest current runtime evidence for each row.Static paths cover only canonical model pages; sort and quantization stay as query state.

Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	456	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$7,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 222.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	392	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$6,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 158.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	328	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 94.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	328	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$5,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 94.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	296	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 62.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	264	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 30.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	264	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 30.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
8	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,599	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
9	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
10	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
11	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
12	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
13	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	248	8bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 14.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
14	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	236	Q6_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 8.1 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
15	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	236	Q6_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 8.1 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
16	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	236	Q6_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 8.1 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
17	Mac Mini M4 32GB	234	6bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$799	6bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
18	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	234	6bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,499	6bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
19	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	234	6bit	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,699	6bit is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
20	Mac Mini M4 16GB	196	Q2_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$499	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
21	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	196	Q2_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,099	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
22	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	196	Q2_K	42.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,299	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 42.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
23	Mac Mini M4 24GB	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$599	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
24	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$1,299	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
25	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$1,399	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
26	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$1,499	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
27	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$1,999	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
28	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	194	Q4_K_M	32.0 tok/s	Ollama	Fits	Measured	$2,499	Q4_K_M is the current best practical quantization. 32.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 4.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — ranking first, raw rows below

Start with the ranked Mac table above. Use the rest of this page to inspect raw Apple Silicon coverage and model metadata.

Quantizations observed: Q4_K - Medium

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3Chip tiers covered

55.0Fastest avg tok/s (M5 Max (128 GB))

—Minimum RAM observed

What this page answers best

Fastest published result is 55.0 tok/s on M5 Max (128 GB) at Q4_K - Medium. Published runtimes include MLX, Ollama. Start with Rankings for the decision, then use the raw rows below to audit the evidence.

Evidence state: 3 linked reference rows and no Silicon Score Lab rows yet.

Published runtimes here: MLX, Ollama.

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Catalog record

35BTotal params

3BActive params

262,144Context window

2026-04-15Release date

What this model is, and what Apple Silicon users are actually seeing

Official model cards tell you what the model is for and which software stacks it targets. Field reality below shows how much Apple Silicon evidence we have so far.

Official brief

Agentic Coding: the model now handles frontend workflows and repository-level reasoning with greater fluency and precision.

Official source · Raw model card

agentscodingreasoningvisual-understanding

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMSGLangTransformersKTransformers

Official takeaways

Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder.
Scale: 35B in total and 3B activated.
Context: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens..
Agentic Coding: the model now handles frontend workflows and repository-level reasoning with greater fluency and precision.

Official model cards describe intent, capabilities, and supported stacks. They do not prove Apple Silicon speed by themselves.

Field reality on Apple Silicon

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: 2 Apple Silicon field reports; best reported generation ~76 tok/s; best reported prompt processing ~682.2 tok/s; seen on MacBook Pro M4 PRO 48GB; via oMLX.

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2Field reports

1Practitioner signals

Sparse BenchmarksEvidence status

What practitioners keep saying

The oMLX page reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 4bit on an M4 Pro 48GB MacBook Pro at 8192 tokens context with 682.2 tok/s prompt processing and 66.3 tok/s generation.
The short-context rows report 76.0 tok/s generation at 1024 tokens context and 74.1 tok/s generation at 4096 tokens context, which should move Bitter Mill reproduction ahead of older Qwen baselines.

Runtime mentions in the field

oMLX

Hardware mentioned in reports

48GBM4M4 ProMacBookMacBook Pro

What would improve confidence

Capture Practitioner Runtime Notes
Queue Lab Verification If Hardware Available
Reproduce Field Performance Signal
Resolve Blocked Source Capture

Current published coverage

Published chip coverage includes M5 Max (128 GB), M4 Max (48 GB), M4 Pro (24 GB). Fastest published row is 55.0 tok/s on M5 Max (128 GB) at Q4_K - Medium.

M5 Max (128 GB)M4 Max (48 GB)M4 Pro (24 GB)

Related Qwen3.6-35B-A3B models with published pages: Qwen3.6-27B

Raw benchmark rows for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Rows stay below the ranking because this page is answer-first. Use them to inspect exact chips, quantizations, runtimes, and sources.

Chip	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
M5 Max (128 GB)	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	55.0 tok/s	—	MLX	ref
M4 Max (48 GB)	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	42.0 tok/s	—	MLX	ref
M4 Pro (24 GB)	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	32.0 tok/s	—	Ollama	ref

Chips with published results for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

M5 Max (128 GB)M4 Max (48 GB)M4 Pro (24 GB)

Data

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