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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
79 vs 67
Quality Score
86 vs 81

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineASUSMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core ProcessorApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM31 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, RaphaelApple M4 Pro
OScachyos rollingmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec115.820.3
First chunk9 ms4216 ms
TTFT310 ms4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage25.3 GB5.6 GB
Memory %83%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
9/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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