Will it run? / Qwen3.6 35B (A3B)

Can I run Qwen3.6 35B (A3B) on a Mac or mini PC?

Qwen3.6 35B (A3B) needs about 25.5 GB of memory. It fits on 11 of the 15 machines we track. The cheapest current machine that runs it at a comfortable 10+ tokens/sec is the Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) ($3,799).

24 GBdownload (Q4_K_M)
~25.5 GBmemory needed
2.1 GBread per token (MoE)
11/15machines it fits on
ollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b
MachineMemoryFits?Tokens/secFrom
Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) 64 GBYes120+
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) 96 GBYes120+
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) 256 GBYes120+
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Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) 64 GBYes64
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Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) older 64 GBYes57
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NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) 128 GBYes50
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Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC (128GB) 128 GBYes47
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Mac mini M6 (32GB) 32 GBBarely21
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Beelink SER7 (Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB) 32 GBYes14
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Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) 32 GBYes14
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GEEKOM A6 (Ryzen 7 6800H, 32GB) 32 GBYes12
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Mac mini M6 (16GB) 16 GBNo–
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Mac mini M5 Pro (24GB) 24 GBNo–
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Mac mini M4 (16GB) older 16 GBNo–
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Mac mini M2 (16GB) older 16 GBNo–
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This is a mixture-of-experts model: it only reads part of itself for each token, so it runs much faster than its size suggests, but the whole file still has to fit in memory. Around 10 tokens/sec reads comfortably; under 5 feels slow. How we estimate.

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