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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen2.5-coder:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
89 vs 78
Hardware Fit
97 vs 59
Quality Score
86 vs 86

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5-coder:32b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5-coder:32b
Tokens/sec130.29.5
First chunk5 ms394 ms
TTFT135 ms395 ms
Load timeN/A72.1 s
Memory usage26.6 GB26.5 GB
Memory %42%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen2.5-coder:32b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-coder:32b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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