Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)
on M2 Max 64GB · Ollama · 32,768 ctx
Use cases
codingagentictool-use
Summary
User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 71.3 t/s decode on short prompts on a Mac Studio M2 Max 64GB.
Setup is Ollama with NVFP4 MLX weights, q8_0 KV cache, 32768 context, flash attention on, single concurrent request, think disabled.
Decode stays near-flat with prompt length (69.3 t/s medium, 67.8 t/s long) and the 5-turn multiturn total is 23.7 s; the model is the recommended default coding model, replacing Qwen3-Coder-30B.