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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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
88 vs 59
Hardware Fit
90 vs 63
Quality Score
87 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec42.018.3
First chunk243 ms4 ms
TTFT243 ms530 ms
Load time9.7 sN/A
Memory usage32.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %26%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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