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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
82 vs 86
Hardware Fit
80 vs 98
Quality Score
83 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:30b
MachineMac StudioASUS
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1224
RAM96 GB47 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:30b
Tokens/sec54.7204.8
First chunk32 ms96 ms
TTFT30.0 s674 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage30.3 GB20.5 GB
Memory %32%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:30b

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

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

qwen3:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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