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Can I run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE) locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 24 GB (qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M); Q8_0 39 GB (qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0).

Yes on 44 machines in this list. The smallest is RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Q4_K_M, about 24 GB, roughly 22 tokens per second, via LM Studio. lms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M

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

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~22 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RTX 4080 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RTX 5080 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~27 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RX 7800 XT 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RX 9070 XT 16GBLM StudioQ4_K_M GGUF24 GBpartial offload (slower)~26 tok/slms get unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~64 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~65 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBpartial offload (slower)~64 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
M1 Pro 32GBLM StudioMLX 4bit22.3 GBfits in fast memory~47 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
M2 Pro 32GBLM StudioMLX 4bit22.3 GBfits in fast memory~47 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
M4 32GBLM StudioMLX 4bit22.3 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~30 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~82 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~92 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~269 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~55 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~109 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M25.9 GBfits in fast memory~123 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q4_K_M
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~76 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~76 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-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 qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~98 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-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/Qwen3.6-35B-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 qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~148 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~43 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-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/Qwen3.6-35B-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/Qwen3.6-35B-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 qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF38.8 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-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/Qwen3.6-35B-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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