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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
82 vs 65
Hardware Fit
80 vs 92
Quality Score
83 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac StudioiMac
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores128
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec54.719.6
First chunk32 ms690 ms
TTFT30.0 s690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage30.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %32%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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