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Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

36B total, 3B active · 256k context · apache-2.0 · released 2026-04-15

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What to run it on in Canada

Fully in memory at 8k context, priced at retailers today.

Something we price holds it fully in memory, but none reaches 15 tok/s, our bar for recommending it. The table below has the speeds.

All hardware that runs it

Everything we price, best value first. Two cards split the model by layers.

HardwareQuantFitsDecodePricetok/s per 1,000
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090UD-Q4_K_Mfits168 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090UD-Q6_Kfits249 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBQ8_0fits64 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090UD-Q4_K_Mfits181 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GBQ8_0fits32 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXUD-Q4_K_Mfits153 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBQ8_0fits26 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GBQ8_0fits97 tok/s––
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GBQ8_0fits31 tok/s––
GMKtec EVO-X2 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBQ8_0fits26 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBQ8_0fits97 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 48GBQ8_0fits32 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GBQ8_0fits64 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBQ8_0fits97 tok/s––
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellQ8_0fits201 tok/s––
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700UD-Q6_Kfits79 tok/s––
ASUS Ascent GX10 128GBQ8_0fits31 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GBQ8_0fits26 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiUD-Q4_K_Mfits181 tok/s––
Intel Arc Pro B60UD-Q4_K_Mfits60 tok/s––
NVIDIA Tesla P40UD-Q4_K_Mfits62 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiUD-Q4_K_Moffload43 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload36 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload25 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTUD-Q4_K_Moffload37 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload31 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080UD-Q4_K_Moffload43 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperUD-Q4_K_Moffload40 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070UD-Q4_K_Moffload28 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload30 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperUD-Q4_K_Moffload27 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperUD-Q4_K_Moffload41 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTUD-Q4_K_Moffload37 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTUD-Q4_K_Moffload69 tok/s––
Intel Arc B580UD-Q4_K_Moffload23 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XTUD-Q4_K_Moffload29 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload25 tok/s––
Intel Arc A770 16GBUD-Q4_K_Moffload32 tok/s––

2 other cards and machines we price cannot hold it at this context.

Memory needed

Weights, KV cache and runtime buffers at each context length (KV cache at fp16).

QuantFile@8k@32k@64k@128k
UD-Q4_K_Mgguf20.6 GB21.6 GB22.2 GB23.0 GB24.6 GB
mlx-4bitmlx19.0 GB20.0 GB20.6 GB21.4 GB23.0 GB
UD-Q5_K_Mgguf24.6 GB25.6 GB26.2 GB27.0 GB28.6 GB
UD-Q6_Kgguf27.3 GB28.3 GB28.9 GB29.7 GB31.3 GB
Q8_0gguf34.4 GB35.3 GB35.9 GB36.8 GB38.4 GB
mlx-8bitmlx35.1 GB36.1 GB36.7 GB37.5 GB39.1 GB

Run it

Copy a command for the runtime you use.

  • UD-Q4_K_M
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_M
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@ud-q4_k_m
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_M
  • mlx-4bit
    • LM Studiolms get mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
    • MLXmlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
  • UD-Q5_K_M
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q5_K_M
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@ud-q5_k_m
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q5_K_M
  • UD-Q6_K
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q6_K
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@ud-q6_k
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q6_K
  • Q8_0
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@q8_0
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0
  • mlx-8bit
    • LM Studiolms get mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-8bit
    • MLXmlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-8bit