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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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
65 vs 87
Hardware Fit
96 vs 90
Quality Score
51 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec99.686.5
First chunk18 ms9 ms
TTFT1.6 s175 ms
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB37.9 GB
Memory %0%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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