qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

89 vs 66

Hardware Fit

97 vs 23

Quality Score

86 vs 84

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b GPT-120B:120b

MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1820

RAM64 GB55 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b GPT-120B:120b

Tokens/sec130.216.8

First chunk5 ms11247 ms

TTFT135 ms12.2 s

Load timeN/A77.3 s

Memory usage26.6 GB61.6 GB

Memory %42%113%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

GPT-120B:120b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

2/20

Memory

0/30

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

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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