What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit requires approximately 37.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit is developed by unsloth, a model with 35b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1395. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit by unsloth — VRAM 37.8GB

Name: Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit
Author: unsloth

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 35b LLM, VRAM: 37.8GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.43, ELO: 1395.

8-bit 8bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3... Conversational Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Qwen Qwen3 5 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MLX-8bit

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1395 vs 1272 (so35) 9.7%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.6 35B A3B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MLX-8bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Model Size	35b
Required VRAM	37.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3_5_moe
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-8 5.4 GB: 2-of-8 5.4 GB: 3-of-8 5.4 GB: 4-of-8 5.4 GB: 5-of-8 5.4 GB: 6-of-8 5.0 GB: 7-of-8 0.5 GB: 8-of-8
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|vision_pad\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MLX-8bit.