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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
89 vs 72
Hardware Fit
97 vs 92
Quality Score
86 vs 63

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:1.7b
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 qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec130.2120.7
First chunk5 ms93 ms
TTFT135 ms1.5 s
Load timeN/A2.5 s
Memory usage26.6 GB5.8 GB
Memory %42%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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