llamaperf

Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)

on M1 Max 64GB · Inco Splash

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Sep 26, 2026
Throughput
144.0 t/s gen
Quant
4-bit
KV cache
8-bit
System RAM
64 GB

Use cases

agenticcodinglong-context

Summary

User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 144 tok/s on an M1 Max 64GB, up from 99 tok/s with the previous Splash build. Setup is Inco Splash 1.0.2-m1.1 with 4-bit weights, an 8-bit KV cache and DFlash speculative decoding with 8 draft tokens; time to first token for a 38K prompt is 72 s, down from 106 s. In a head-to-head on the same Mac with Qwen3.8-27B, Splash decodes at 41.5 tok/s versus 25.9 for MTPLX and 19.8 for oMLX, at 75.3 C and 1.06 J per token; prefill at 44K tokens is 102 tok/s against 125-127 tok/s for the MLX engines.