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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
70 vs 87
Hardware Fit
66 vs 90
Quality Score
71 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM48 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec30.686.5
First chunk304 ms9 ms
TTFT30.0 s175 ms
Load time10.0 sN/A
Memory usage28.1 GB37.9 GB
Memory %59%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Quality

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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