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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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
88 vs 89
Hardware Fit
90 vs 97
Quality Score
87 vs 86

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineGMKtec EVO-X3MacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM120 GB48 GB
GPUAMD Radeon(TM) 8060S GraphicsApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec49.0129.4
First chunk44 ms49 ms
TTFT334 ms49 ms
Load time61.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage59.8 GB20.5 GB
Memory %50%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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