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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
82 vs 80
Hardware Fit
80 vs 66
Quality Score
83 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8:27b
MachineMac StudioAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1232
RAM96 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxRadeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec55.218.4
First chunk4 ms587 ms
TTFT30.0 s587 ms
Load timeN/A7.4 s
Memory usage30.3 GB17.4 GB
Memory %32%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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