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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

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
87 vs 84
Hardware Fit
90 vs 97
Quality Score
86 vs 79

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1824
RAM64 GB47 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec86.5208.0
First chunk9 ms82 ms
TTFT175 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage37.9 GB9.6 GB
Memory %59%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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