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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
82 vs 91
Hardware Fit
80 vs 99
Quality Score
83 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMac StudioASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M2 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1220
RAM96 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec55.256.2
First chunk4 ms531 ms
TTFT30.0 s531 ms
Load timeN/A32.8 s
Memory usage30.3 GB41.0 GB
Memory %32%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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