There are two flavors of Qwen 3.6:

- A 27B "dense" model

- A 35B "Mixture of Experts" model, which activates only 3B parameters for each token.

For your hardware, I strongly recommend `unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M`. I have an M1 Max with 32GB VRAM from 2021 that can read at ~300-500 tokens/sec and write at ~30 tokens/sec with llama-cpp's default settings, which is plenty fast. The 27B model can read ~70tok/sec and write ~5tok/sec.

The 35B MoE model technically takes slightly more memory but is much faster because it's doing 1/9th the work. It's not quite as "smart", but it's comparable.

May I ask why the M instead of XL?

Obviously bigger != better but I don't know what the differences are.

Thank you - I'll give that a go!