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qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 59
Hardware Fit
96 vs 69
Quality Score
51 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB48 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec99.630.5
First chunk18 ms333 ms
TTFT1.6 s30.0 s
Load time4.8 s9.8 s
Memory usage0.3 GB25.1 GB
Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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