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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 34
Hardware Fit
80 vs 58
Quality Score
83 vs 23

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:latest
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5:latest
Tokens/sec54.713.3
First chunk32 ms438 ms
TTFT30.0 s19.8 s
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage30.3 GB8.0 GB
Memory %32%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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