llamaperf

Qwen3.6 35B (3B active)

on Unknown GPU · llama.cpp · 8,192 ctx

Tone: positive
Oct 3, 2026
Throughput
3.0 t/s gen
Quant
IQ2_XXS (GGUF)
KV cache
Q8_0
System RAM
8 GB

Use cases

coding

Summary

User reports Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at 3 t/s on a laptop with an i3 CPU and 8GB RAM, no GPU. Setup is llama.cpp (llama-server.exe) with IQ2_XXS GGUF weights, Q8_0 KV cache, 8192 context, and -ngl 0 so the whole model ran on the CPU. The user generated a single-file HTML RPG in 24 minutes and notes that being GPU poor in 2026 is not so bad.