- quant:
- 4bit
agenticcoding
User runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit on an M3 Max 128GB for production sub-agent delegations. User also mentions GLM-5.1 for orchestration. User is considering building a 5090 rig.
M3 Max 128GB
APPLE · 128GB unified memory · 2 reports
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Qwen3.6 27B
M3 Max 128GB · MLX · 290,000 ctx
- reported speed:
- 5.5 tokens/s generation · 160.0 tokens/s prompt processing
- quant:
- Q8 (mlx)
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long-context
User reports 160 t/s prefill and 5-6 t/s generation on an M5 Max 128GB with Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 MLX at 290k context. GPU utilization sits at only 36-50%. User expected 8-14 t/s generation and asks how other setups compare.