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qwen/qwen3.6-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
80 vs 90
Hardware Fit
56 vs 98
Quality Score
90 vs 86

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec10.886.6
First chunk16 ms13 ms
TTFT2.6 s143 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage21.0 GB23.9 GB
Memory %66%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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