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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
89 vs 18
Hardware Fit
97 vs 53
Quality Score
86 vs 3

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores188
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 27.0Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec130.29.4
First chunk5 ms799 ms
TTFT135 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage26.6 GB1.9 GB
Memory %42%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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