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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-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
89 vs 72
Hardware Fit
97 vs 89
Quality Score
86 vs 64

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1880
RAM64 GB252 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec130.268.2
First chunk5 ms285 ms
TTFT135 ms2.0 s
Load timeN/A42.4 s
Memory usage26.6 GB7.1 GB
Memory %42%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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