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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/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
79 vs 81
Hardware Fit
59 vs 68
Quality Score
87 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineDocker ContainerMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M4 Max
Cores1616
RAM15 GB128 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec9.316.4
First chunk21 ms5 ms
TTFT3.6 s742 ms
Load time32.0 sN/A
Memory usage1.8 GB38.5 GB
Memory %12%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
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/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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