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Single RTX 3090: Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Giles Thomas)

GPU(s)RTX 3090
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VRAM / unified memory (GB)24
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Measured speed (generation tokens/sec)

ModelQuantEnginetok/s
Qwen3.6 35B-A3BQ4 GGUF, all layers on GPU, ~90K ctxllama.cpp CUDA139.6

At full 262K context with 12 layers of FFNs offloaded to CPU: ~66 tok/s.

Source: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/benchmarking-qwen-3-6-35b-moe-rtx-3090

Blank fields = not stated in the source. We never estimate build data; GPU street prices above are separately sourced and dated.

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