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qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
79 vs 89
Hardware Fit
59 vs 95
Quality Score
87 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineDocker ContainerMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec9.333.4
First chunk21 ms257 ms
TTFT3.6 s257 ms
Load time32.0 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB4.3 GB
Memory %12%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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