Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)
on M2 Max 64GB · LM Studio · 262,144 ctx
Summary
User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 83.75 t/s on an Apple M2 Max 64GB, the middle of three sequential runs (82.28, 83.75, 83.09 t/s).
Setup is LM Studio with the MLX runtime (mlx-llm-mac-arm64-apple-metal-advsimd 1.13.1), 4-bit MLX weights, 262144-token context, parallel 4, whole model in unified memory.
One request at a time with no speculative decoding; 705 prompt tokens and 255 completion tokens, all reasoning tokens. Run 1 was cold with 6.973 s to first token, warm runs 1.156 s and 0.897 s.