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qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 6bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
87 vs 75
Hardware Fit
90 vs 50
Quality Score
86 vs 86

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5:72b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen2.5:72b
Tokens/sec86.54.4
First chunk9 ms529 ms
TTFT175 ms529 ms
Load timeN/A49.7 s
Memory usage37.9 GB54.0 GB
Memory %59%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen2.5:72b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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