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 AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 147 tokens/sec (127–166), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is based on community benchmarks of this exact setup.
| Quantization | File size | Memory | Generation | First token | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 22.1 GB | Fits | 147 tok/s | 0.3 s | Measured |
| Q8_0 | 36.9 GB | Partial offload | 64 tok/s | 1.2 s | Projected |
| FP16 | 69.4 GB | Partial offload | 17 tok/s | 1.2 s | Projected |
All models on the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB · 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.