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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

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 36
Hardware Fit
79 vs 53
Quality Score
86 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineASUSMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core ProcessorApple M4
Cores1610
RAM31 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, RaphaelApple M4
OScachyos rollingmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec115.810.3
First chunk9 ms27 ms
TTFT310 ms20.7 s
Load timeN/A15.4 s
Memory usage25.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %83%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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