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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

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
59 vs 81
Hardware Fit
69 vs 95
Quality Score
54 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1420
RAM48 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3.1Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec30.5108.3
First chunk333 ms169 ms
TTFT30.0 s169 ms
Load time9.8 s1.7 s
Memory usage25.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %52%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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