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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
89 vs 81
Hardware Fit
97 vs 96
Quality Score
86 vs 75

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1820
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec130.2109.1
First chunk5 ms190 ms
TTFT135 ms190 ms
Load timeN/A4.3 s
Memory usage26.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %42%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

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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