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Qwen3.6-35B-GGUF

GGUF quantization of Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

At a glance

Base model Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Format GGUF
Total params 35B
Active / token 3B
Experts / layer —
Layers —
Hidden size —
Context —
On-disk size 171 GB

Which variant should I pick?

Variant Format Link
Qwen3.6-28B BF16 link
Qwen3.6-28B-GGUF GGUF link
Qwen3.6-35B-GGUF (this) GGUF link

Dynamic mixed-precision GGUF quantizations of Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, produced and benchmarked on a Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Radeon 8060S, gfx1151, 128 GB UMA) running Vulkan via llama.cpp.

Variants

File Size prefill (t/s) decode (t/s) Notes
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q8_0.gguf 35 GB 975 52.7 near-lossless reference
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q6_K.gguf 27 GB 830 62.2
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q5_K_M.gguf 24 GB 943 64.1
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf 20 GB 1021 70.2 production sweet spot
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4_0.gguf 19 GB 1061 76.5 fastest decode
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-IQ4_NL.gguf 19 GB 891 73.1
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DYNAMIC.gguf 19 GB 1100 64.0 fastest prefill; mixed per-tensor quant

All numbers: pp=4096 tokens, tg=128 tokens; -fa 1 -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -ub 2048 -b 2048 on a single Vulkan gfx1151 device.

Dynamic mix recipe

DYNAMIC.gguf uses a per-tensor quantization map chosen for the hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention architecture:

  • attn_k / attn_q / attn_v → Q8_0 (retrieval-critical)
  • attn_output → Q5_K
  • ffn_gate_inp (router) → Q8_0 (routing-critical)
  • ffn_gate_exps / ffn_up_exps / ffn_down_exps (256 routed experts) → IQ4_NL
  • ffn_gate_shexp / ffn_up_shexp / ffn_down_shexp (shared expert) → Q6_K
  • token_embd / output → Q8_0
  • everything else → Q4_K_M (fallback)

Usage

llama-bench -m Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DYNAMIC.gguf -ngl 99 -fa 1 -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 \
  -ub 2048 -b 2048 -p 4096 -n 128

Benchmark context

Research series on pushing Qwen3.5/3.6 on AMD Strix Halo. Methodology, scripts, and live results: see the benchmark site referenced from the GitHub repo.

License

Apache 2.0 (inherited from base model).

License & citation

License inherited from the base model.

@misc{lasby2025reap,
  title  = {REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE Compression},
  author = {Mike Lasby and Ivan Lazarevich and Nish Sinnadurai and Sean Lie and Yani Ioannou and Vithursan Thangarasa},
  year   = {2025}, eprint = {2510.13999}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

Sponsors

Made possible by NVIDIA · TNG Technology · Lambda · Prime Intellect · Hot Aisle.

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