llamaperf

Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)

on M4 16GB · llama.cpp · 16,384 ctx

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Oct 21, 2026
Throughput
23.0 t/s gen · 29.6 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
UD-Q4_K_M (GGUF)
System RAM
16 GB

Use cases

codingagentic

Summary

User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 23.0 tok/s generation and 29.6 tok/s prompt reading on a single prompt, on a 16 GB Mac mini M4. Setup is stock llama.cpp b11715 with the Kraits plugin, Unsloth UD-Q4_K_M (22.1 GB) weights, 16K context, temperature 0 and thinking off. A 4-agent crew writing a TypeScript LRU cache ran at 16.0-23.8 tok/s writing and 37.8-47.3 tok/s reading at ~16K context, scoring 9/9; the ~8K run scored 8/8 and the ~1K run 6/8. The single prompt scored 8/8 in 43.7 s.