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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

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
89 vs 82
Hardware Fit
97 vs 81
Quality Score
86 vs 82

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1832
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec130.230.8
First chunk5 ms195 ms
TTFT135 ms195 ms
Load timeN/A6.8 s
Memory usage26.6 GB18.8 GB
Memory %42%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.5:9b

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