qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit
Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
Global Score
87 vs 97
Hardware Fit
90 vs 95
Quality Score
86 vs 98
Hardware
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec86.579.6
First chunk9 ms11 ms
TTFT175 ms1.7 s
Load timeN/A7.1 s
Memory usage37.9 GB0.0 GB
Memory %59%0%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30
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
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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