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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
90 vs 81
Hardware Fit
98 vs 68
Quality Score
86 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1816
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec86.616.4
First chunk13 ms5 ms
TTFT143 ms742 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage23.9 GB38.5 GB
Memory %37%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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