Developer questions whether Qwen 3.6 35B's superior benchmark rankings outweigh Qwen 3.5 122B's larger capacity for coding and long-running tasks.

A developer running a DGX Spark 128GB machine seeks community input on choosing between Qwen 3.5 122B and Qwen 3.6 35B for coding and chat applications

Artificial Analysis ranks the smaller Qwen 3.6 35B model higher than the larger 3.5 122B on coding tasks, agentic use cases, and overall performance index

User expresses concern that despite faster speed, the 35B model may underperform on long-running tool calling tasks and general reasoning capabilities compared to the 122B variant