qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

89 vs 20

Hardware Fit

97 vs 37

Quality Score

86 vs 12

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:27b

MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1832

RAM64 GB125 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec130.210.6

First chunk5 ms358 ms

TTFT135 ms13.7 s

Load timeN/A10.8 s

Memory usage26.6 GB39.7 GB

Memory %42%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

9/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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