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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
84 vs 86
Hardware Fit
78 vs 98
Quality Score
86 vs 81

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:30b
Tokens/sec49.9204.8
First chunk31 ms96 ms
TTFT708 ms674 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage26.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %83%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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