I Ran QWEN 3.6 vs Gemma 4 Locally on M5 Max — The 6X Gap Is Embarrassing
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A hands-on comparison of Qwen 3.6 (35B MoE) vs Gemma 4 (31B) running locally on an Apple M5 Max with 128GB RAM using LM Studio. Tests include SVG image generation and a browser-based snake game. Qwen 3.6 consistently outperforms Gemma 4 in inference speed (~110 tokens/sec vs ~16 tokens/sec), thinking time (under 1 second vs 25-105 seconds), and output quality. Both models are vision-capable, but Qwen 3.6 produced more complete and functional code outputs.
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