qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

82 vs 64

Hardware Fit

80 vs 100

Quality Score

83 vs 48

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMac mini

CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro

Cores1214

RAM96 GB64 GB

GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec55.290.3

First chunk4 ms198 ms

TTFT30.0 s198 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage30.3 GB2.0 GB

Memory %32%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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