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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
80 vs 97
Hardware Fit
60 vs 95
Quality Score
88 vs 98

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineSystem manufacturerMac Studio
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core ProcessorApple M2 Max
Cores1612
RAM31 GB96 GB
GPUNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]Apple M2 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec15.079.6
First chunk49 ms11 ms
TTFT759 ms1.7 s
Load timeN/A7.1 s
Memory usage22.2 GB0.0 GB
Memory %71%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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