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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

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
88 vs 80
Hardware Fit
90 vs 85
Quality Score
87 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineGMKtec EVO-X3HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores3280
RAM120 GB252 GB
GPUAMD Radeon(TM) 8060S GraphicsTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec49.065.1
First chunk44 ms289 ms
TTFT334 ms4.2 s
Load time61.3 s4.6 s
Memory usage59.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %50%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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