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qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
91 vs 72
Hardware Fit
99 vs 77
Quality Score
87 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 llama3.1:8b
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM122 GB16 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0 llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec56.221.5
First chunk531 ms368 ms
TTFT531 ms368 ms
Load time32.8 s6.9 s
Memory usage41.0 GB12.9 GB
Memory %34%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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