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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 68
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
83 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec55.277.3
First chunk4 ms177 ms
TTFT30.0 s177 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage30.3 GB1.2 GB
Memory %32%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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