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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 68
Hardware Fit
78 vs 91
Quality Score
86 vs 58

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec49.942.2
First chunk31 ms201 ms
TTFT708 ms4.4 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage26.6 GB3.8 GB
Memory %83%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
8/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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