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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Nov 1, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
88 vs 77
Hardware Fit
90 vs 67
Quality Score
87 vs 81

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineGMKtec EVO-X3Mac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM120 GB64 GB
GPUAMD Radeon(TM) 8060S GraphicsApple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec49.020.3
First chunk44 ms4216 ms
TTFT334 ms4.2 s
Load time61.3 sN/A
Memory usage59.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %50%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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
16/20
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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