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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
87 vs 80
Hardware Fit
90 vs 85
Quality Score
86 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1880
RAM64 GB252 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec86.565.1
First chunk9 ms289 ms
TTFT175 ms4.2 s
Load timeN/A4.6 s
Memory usage37.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %59%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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