Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 vs Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
36.0 B
Context
30d
8.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B
Params
4.7 B
Context
30d
942 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit
Parameters 36.0 B 4.7 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 8,946,336 941,881
Downloads all time 24.7 M 2.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-15 2026-04-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.9 M942 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit · fp16 18.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 · fp16 47.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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