What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.6 27B Penguin?

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin requires approximately 36.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.6 27B Penguin and how large is it?

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin is developed by glyd, a model with 27b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3.6 27B Penguin?

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin by glyd — VRAM 36.3GB

Name: Qwen3.6 27B Penguin
Author: glyd

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin is an open-source language model by glyd. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 36.3GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

8-bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.6-27b Conversational Glyd Lossless Penguin Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/glyd/Qwen3.6-27B-penguin

Qwen3.6 27B Penguin Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.6 27B Penguin
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/glyd/Qwen3.6-27B-penguin
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	36.3 GB
Updated	2026-10-13
Maintainer	glyd
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	2.5 GB: 1-of-35 1.0 GB: 2-of-35 1.0 GB: 3-of-35 1.0 GB: 4-of-35 1.0 GB: 5-of-35 1.0 GB: 6-of-35 1.0 GB: 7-of-35 1.0 GB: 8-of-35 1.0 GB: 9-of-35 1.0 GB: 10-of-35 1.0 GB: 11-of-35 1.0 GB: 12-of-35 1.0 GB: 13-of-35 1.0 GB: 14-of-35 1.0 GB: 15-of-35 1.0 GB: 16-of-35 1.0 GB: 17-of-35 1.0 GB: 18-of-35 1.0 GB: 19-of-35 1.0 GB: 20-of-35 1.0 GB: 21-of-35 1.0 GB: 22-of-35 1.0 GB: 23-of-35 1.0 GB: 24-of-35 1.0 GB: 25-of-35 1.0 GB: 26-of-35 1.0 GB: 27-of-35 1.0 GB: 28-of-35 1.0 GB: 29-of-35 1.0 GB: 30-of-35 1.0 GB: 31-of-35 1.0 GB: 32-of-35 1.0 GB: 33-of-35 1.6 GB: 34-of-35 0.2 GB: 35-of-35
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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