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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q3_K_S

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
89 vs 85
Hardware Fit
90 vs 79
Quality Score
88 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec39.127.4
First chunk33 ms593 ms
TTFT319 ms593 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage19.0 GB18.2 GB
Memory %60%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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