qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

82 vs 35

Hardware Fit

80 vs 97

Quality Score

83 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b starcoder2:7b

MachineMac StudioMacBook Air

CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

Cores1210

RAM96 GB32 GB

GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec54.723.8

First chunk32 msN/A

TTFT30.0 s251 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage30.3 GB6.3 GB

Memory %32%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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