qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

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Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

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Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

82 vs 77

Hardware Fit

80 vs 67

Quality Score

83 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b openai/gpt-oss-20b

MachineMac StudioMac mini

CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

Cores1210

RAM96 GB24 GB

GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b openai/gpt-oss-20b

Tokens/sec55.230.5

First chunk4 ms18 ms

TTFT30.0 s30.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage30.3 GB15.8 GB

Memory %32%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

17/30

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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