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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
82 vs 81
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
83 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b llama3.1:8b
MachineMac StudioGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1216
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec55.270.2
First chunk4 ms58 ms
TTFT30.0 s58 ms
Load timeN/A4.1 s
Memory usage30.3 GB4.9 GB
Memory %32%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

llama3.1:8b

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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