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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

lmstudio-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 78
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
83 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b lmstudio-community…
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 lmstudio-community…
Tokens/sec55.246.0
First chunk4 ms245 ms
TTFT30.0 s245 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage30.3 GB4.6 GB
Memory %32%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest