Qwen3.5 35B (3B active)
on M5 16GB · oMLX · 128,000 ctx
Use cases
agentic
Summary
User reports running Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and Gemma 4 26B-A4B on an M5 16GB Mac at about 20-40 t/s, with 128k of context.
Setup uses oMLX, which the user tested after seeing results, and goose for the CLI.
The speed is given only as a range. The user asks why others recommend smaller models such as Gemma 4 E4B or Qwen3.5 9B Q6_K instead.