Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)
on M3 Ultra 128GB · Ollama
Summary
User compares qwen3:4b at ~141 tokens/s with qwen3.6:35b at ~155 tokens/s in Ollama on a Mac Studio with 128 GB unified memory, using eval rate from --verbose so loading time is excluded.
The 35B is a mixture-of-experts model with 8 of 256 experts active per token. With a very long context set in Ollama, even the 2.5 GB 4B model showed ~43 GB in ollama ps.
User cautions that one test is not proof and the puzzle was well known, so both models may have seen it before.