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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 25, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
89 vs 68
Hardware Fit
97 vs 21
Quality Score
86 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b GPT-120B:120b
MachineMacBook ProGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1816
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b GPT-120B:120b
Tokens/sec130.212.1
First chunk5 ms4392 ms
TTFT135 ms8.7 s
Load timeN/A80.1 s
Memory usage26.6 GB61.0 GB
Memory %42%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

GPT-120B:120b

Speed
15/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
2/30

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
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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