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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
59 vs 80
Hardware Fit
69 vs 85
Quality Score
54 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1480
RAM48 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4 ProTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec30.565.1
First chunk333 ms289 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.2 s
Load time9.8 s4.6 s
Memory usage25.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %52%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:8b

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