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Qwen 3.5 to 3.6 was a big jump for the same size, e.g. 29 to 32 on artificial analysis intelligence for the 35BA3B models. Although I don’t think anyone has released a better model of that size since.

I would love to see something like a 90B A6B model that is optimized for 128GB machines e.g. strix halo, I haven’t seen anything really targeting the combination of RAM and compute these machines have, but I’m biased because I have one.

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Yes, yes, yes! I'm absolutely ready and waiting with dual Strix Halo machines here and really want something approaching Opus at home. Speed is secondary concern for now, that would absolutely change the world.

Qwen 3.6 27b 8b quant 16b kv cache is already pretty good on the Strix.

What kind of tokens per second do you get on that setup?

I get about 12 tok/s with 27B 8 bit, 50 with 35B A3B 8 bit, and 12 with 3.5 122B A10B 4 bit. The latter is about 80 GB iirc. it feels like the best balance between using as much memory as I can and still having a smaller expert model for inference to give decent speed, but I haven’t actually rigorously compared the performance of the three models.

Edit: that’s for one machine, would be interested to know if the upstream commenter with two has them networked to run bigger models? If I had two I might be inclined to have them running in parallel, the obvious limitation I’ve found with a single machine is that I can’t parallelize any tasks and I think I’d get more use out of the extra speed vs a bigger model (there’s nothing I’m too excited about in the say 200B range that having 256GB memory would unlock). But am very curious what others do

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