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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

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
87 vs 80
Hardware Fit
90 vs 60
Quality Score
86 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1820
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec86.514.7
First chunk9 ms796 ms
TTFT175 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage37.9 GB17.9 GB
Memory %59%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
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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