llamaperf

Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)

on M2 Max 64GB · Ollama · 32,768 ctx

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Oct 7, 2026
Throughput
71.3 t/s gen
Quant
NVFP4 (MLX)
KV cache
q8_0
System RAM
64 GB

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.