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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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
79 vs 66
Hardware Fit
59 vs 91
Quality Score
87 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineDocker ContainerMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.333.2
First chunk21 ms7 ms
TTFT3.6 s311 ms
Load time32.0 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %12%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest