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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

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
88 vs 89
Hardware Fit
90 vs 95
Quality Score
87 vs 87

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3-8b
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 qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec49.033.4
First chunk44 ms257 ms
TTFT334 ms257 ms
Load time61.3 sN/A
Memory usage59.8 GB4.3 GB
Memory %50%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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