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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 43
Hardware Fit
97 vs 99
Quality Score
86 vs 19

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
Tokens/sec130.2344.2
First chunk5 ms173 ms
TTFT135 ms173 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage26.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %42%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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