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qwen3.6:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 17, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
88 vs 66
Hardware Fit
91 vs 91
Quality Score
87 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec43.333.2
First chunk291 ms7 ms
TTFT291 ms311 ms
Load time6.2 sN/A
Memory usage32.2 GB0.5 GB
Memory %26%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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