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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
82 vs 71
Hardware Fit
80 vs 56
Quality Score
83 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac StudioSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1212
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec55.25.3
First chunk4 ms1624 ms
TTFT30.0 s1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage30.3 GB7.9 GB
Memory %32%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

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