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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
87 vs 59
Hardware Fit
90 vs 100
Quality Score
86 vs 42

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b gemma3:1b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec86.534.0
First chunk9 ms1876 ms
TTFT175 ms1.9 s
Load timeN/A1.7 s
Memory usage37.9 GB0.8 GB
Memory %59%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

gemma3:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
7/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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