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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
82 vs 64
Hardware Fit
80 vs 100
Quality Score
83 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b smollm2:1.7b
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 smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec54.751.8
First chunk32 msN/A
TTFT30.0 s84 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage30.3 GB3.7 GB
Memory %32%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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