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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 84
Hardware Fit
80 vs 91
Quality Score
83 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec54.730.2
First chunk32 ms499 ms
TTFT30.0 s499 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage30.3 GB6.7 GB
Memory %32%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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