Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF
GGUF quantizations of empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill — a distillation of the Qwen3.8 frontier models into the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts architecture — for llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, KoboldCpp, and other stock GGUF runtimes.
Params
35.0 B
Context
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-IQ2_M.gguf | IQ2_M | 12.6 GB | 19.6 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q2_K.gguf | Q2_K | 13.8 GB | 21.0 GB | ⚠️ Tight — reduce context |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-IQ3_M.gguf | IQ3_M | 16.3 GB | 23.7 GB | ⚠️ Tight — reduce context |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q3_K_M.gguf | Q3_K_M | 17.7 GB | 25.2 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-IQ4_XS.gguf | IQ4_XS | 19.6 GB | 27.3 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 21.7 GB | 29.6 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | 25.3 GB | 33.6 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
| Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-BF16.gguf | GGUF | 71.1 GB | 83.9 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Run it
copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub$ ollama run qwen3-8-35b-a3b-distill-gguf # pin the quantization explicitly $ ollama run qwen3-8-35b-a3b-distill-gguf-q4_k_m
$ huggingface-cli download empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF-GGUF \
Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir .
$ llama-cli -m Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf \
-c 8192 -ngl 99 -t 8 --color
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/qwen3-8-35b-a3b-distill-gguf
{
"hf_id": "empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF",
"params_b": 35.00,
"context_length": null,
"license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
"downloads_30d": 1180846,
"vram_estimates": [
{ "quant": "GGUF", "gb": 83.9 },
{ "quant": "IQ2_M", "gb": 19.6 }
],
"updated_at": "2026-09-27T01:00:11Z"
}
Specifications
- Parameters
- 35.0 B
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- First seen on the Hub
- 2026-09-16
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-09-27
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