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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
87 vs 61
Hardware Fit
90 vs 31
Quality Score
86 vs 74

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1880
RAM64 GB256 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-235b-a22b-t4…
Tokens/sec86.51.7
First chunk9 ms3351 ms
TTFT175 ms3.4 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage37.9 GB134.2 GB
Memory %59%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Speed
1/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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