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qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q6_K

Not Rec.

Sep 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 69
Hardware Fit
35 vs 100
Quality Score
88 vs 56

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
MachineSystem manufacturerMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core ProcessorApple M4
Cores1610
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon RX 9060 XTApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec8.358.1
First chunk32 ms211 ms
TTFT2.0 s211 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage28.9 GB1.5 GB
Memory %91%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
5/30

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

Quality

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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