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Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)

on M3 Max 36GB · Kapitsa

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Oct 24, 2026
Throughput
122.7 t/s gen
Quant
4bit (MLX)
System RAM
36 GB

Use cases

agenticcoding

Summary

User benchmarks Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 122.7 tok/s on an M3 Max 36GB with Kapitsa 0.2.12, tying oMLX at 122.9 tok/s. Setup is Kapitsa with a 4-bit MLX build and MTP head plus DFlash2 drafter, sustained 256-token prose, median of 3 runs. Other engines on the same model: Rapid-MLX 110.3, Splash 97.0, MTPLX 79.9 tok/s. On dense Qwen3.8-27B-4bit Kapitsa leads at 41.3 tok/s, ahead of oMLX 34.1, Splash 33.0, MTPLX 31.6 and Rapid 26.2. Flint 40B-A2.5B reaches 134.2 tok/s on Kapitsa and 103.0 on Rapid. Draft acceptance was 75-78% dense and 81-85% MoE. No formal quality eval was run.