qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

phi-1_5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

phi2 · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

87 vs 28

Hardware Fit

90 vs 66

Quality Score

86 vs 11

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b phi-1_5

MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores184

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b phi-1_5

Tokens/sec86.56.9

First chunk9 ms3040 ms

TTFT175 ms3.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage37.9 GB1.4 GB

Memory %59%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

20/30

phi-1_5

Speed

24/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

26/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

phi-1_5

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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