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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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
90 vs 95
Hardware Fit
98 vs 94
Quality Score
86 vs 96

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl… qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec86.680.4
First chunk13 ms46 ms
TTFT143 ms1.8 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage23.9 GB21.2 GB
Memory %37%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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