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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:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score
87 vs 91
Hardware Fit
90 vs 98
Quality Score
86 vs 88

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1820
RAM64 GB55 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec86.580.5
First chunk9 ms158 ms
TTFT175 ms158 ms
Load timeN/A21.8 s
Memory usage37.9 GB20.3 GB
Memory %59%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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: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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