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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-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
87 vs 89
Hardware Fit
90 vs 92
Quality Score
86 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1816
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec86.557.0
First chunk9 ms194 ms
TTFT175 ms194 ms
Load timeN/A13.8 s
Memory usage37.9 GB17.9 GB
Memory %59%56%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
22/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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