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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q3_K_S

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 84
Hardware Fit
90 vs 78
Quality Score
88 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec39.149.9
First chunk33 ms31 ms
TTFT319 ms708 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage19.0 GB26.6 GB
Memory %60%83%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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