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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q3_K_S

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 66
Hardware Fit
90 vs 34
Quality Score
88 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec39.13.8
First chunk33 ms1637 ms
TTFT319 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A17.0 s
Memory usage19.0 GB21.3 GB
Memory %60%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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