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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q3_K_S

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

lfm2.5:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 8.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 80
Hardware Fit
90 vs 95
Quality Score
88 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b lfm2.5:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b lfm2.5:8b
Tokens/sec39.198.5
First chunk33 ms167 ms
TTFT319 ms2.5 s
Load timeN/A3.0 s
Memory usage19.0 GB6.0 GB
Memory %60%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

lfm2.5:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
28/30

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

lfm2.5:8b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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