Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3B is a 35.95B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 22.9 GB of memory. The Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB has 48 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 89 tokens/sec (50–127), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.
| Quantization | File size | Memory | Generation | First token | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 22.1 GB | Fits | 89 tok/s | 0.3 s | Derived |
| Q8_0 | 36.9 GB | Fits | 53 tok/s | 0.3 s | Derived |
| FP16 | 69.4 GB | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — | — |
All models on the Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB · Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3B on all hardware
Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.