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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

Global Score
87 vs 71
Hardware Fit
90 vs 42
Quality Score
86 vs 84

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-4620 0
Cores1864
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 qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…
Tokens/sec86.54.0
First chunk9 ms2070 ms
TTFT175 ms2.1 s
Load timeN/A44.5 s
Memory usage37.9 GB17.7 GB
Memory %59%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
9/20
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-instruct-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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