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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 75
Hardware Fit
78 vs 100
Quality Score
86 vs 64

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
Tokens/sec49.937.0
First chunk31 ms288 ms
TTFT708 ms288 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage26.6 GB2.4 GB
Memory %83%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Speed
50/50
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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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