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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
89 vs 58
Hardware Fit
97 vs 82
Quality Score
86 vs 48

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec130.224.4
First chunk5 ms294 ms
TTFT135 ms7.9 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage26.6 GB13.8 GB
Memory %42%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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