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Can I run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE) locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 22 GB (qwen3.5:35b); Q8_0 39 GB (qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0).

Yes on 44 machines in this list. The smallest is RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Q4_K_M, about 23.9 GB, roughly 22 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run qwen3.5:35b

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~22 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~28 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RTX 3090 24GBLM StudioMXFP4 GGUF23.4 GBfits in fast memory~156 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF@MXFP4
RTX 4090 24GBLM StudioMXFP4 GGUF23.4 GBfits in fast memory~168 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF@MXFP4
RX 7900 XTX 24GBLM StudioMXFP4 GGUF23.4 GBfits in fast memory~160 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF@MXFP4
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
M4 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~89 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~100 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~293 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~119 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M23.9 GBfits in fast memory~134 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~76 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~76 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~98 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~68 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~43 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~133 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~117 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-18.

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