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qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
84 vs 59
Hardware Fit
79 vs 63
Quality Score
86 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core ProcessorApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM31 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, RaphaelApple M5 Max
OScachyos rollingmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec147.618.3
First chunk3 ms4 ms
TTFT164 ms530 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage25.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %82%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
9/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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