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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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 59
Hardware Fit
59 vs 65
Quality Score
87 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineDocker ContainerMac mini
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900HApple M4
Cores1610
RAM15 GB24 GB
GPUTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.6-35b-a3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.314.3
First chunk21 ms24 ms
TTFT3.6 s13.4 s
Load time32.0 s13.3 s
Memory usage1.8 GB2.5 GB
Memory %12%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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