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Qwen3.6 35B-A3B hardware requirements

36B parameters (3B active, mixture of experts). Needs about 22.6 GB at Q4_K_M with 8K context.

Parameters36B3B active (MoE)
Q4_K_M · 8K22.6 GBthe usual download
FP16 · 8K72.8 GBfull precision
Runs well on16/51GPUs and Macs we track

Memory needed at each quantization

Weights, KV cache and runtime overhead, at 8K and 32K tokens of context.

QuantQuality8K context32K context
FP16Full quality72.8 GB73.3 GB
Q8_0Near-lossless39 GB39.5 GB
Q6_KExcellent30.3 GB30.8 GB
Q5_K_MVery good26.4 GB26.9 GB
Q4_K_MGood, most popular22.6 GB23.1 GB
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded18.4 GB18.9 GB
Q2_KHeavily degraded14.3 GB14.8 GB

Run it with Ollama

Downloads Q4_K_M by default.

ollama run qwen3.6:35b

Model card

Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Hugging Face: licence, prompt format and GGUF builds.

Run it in the cloud

Run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on a rented GPU today.

It needs about 22.6 GB at Q4_K_M: a rented RTX 3090 / RTX 4090 runs it for about $0.18 to $0.89 an hour.

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Every GPU and Mac checked

Sorted by memory. Bars show how much of each card Qwen3.6 35B-A3B fills at the best quant that fits.

16 Runs well

NameMemory usedBest quantSpeed

17 Fits with heavy quantization

NameMemory usedBest quantSpeed

18 Too big

NameMemory usedBest quantSpeed

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