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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
89 vs 71
Hardware Fit
97 vs 56
Quality Score
86 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec130.25.3
First chunk5 ms1624 ms
TTFT135 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage26.6 GB7.9 GB
Memory %42%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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