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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 22, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
88 vs 58
Hardware Fit
90 vs 68
Quality Score
87 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB24 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec42.016.7
First chunk243 ms23 ms
TTFT243 ms14.1 s
Load time9.7 sN/A
Memory usage32.1 GB7.8 GB
Memory %26%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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