Qwen3.6 35b Q2_XXS: Being GPU poor in 2026 is not so bad
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A developer demonstrated that even with limited GPU resources, it's possible to achieve impressive results, such as creating an RPG in 24 minutes. This was accomplished using the Qwen3.6 35b Q2_XXS model, specifically the Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-IQ2_XXS.gguf file, via llama-server.exe. The setup utilized parameters like -c 8192, -n 8192, and --cache-type-v q8_0, suggesting efficient resource management for generating a single HTML file output.
llama-server.exe --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 -m models\qwen3.6-35b-Instruct\Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-IQ2_XXS.gguf -c 8192 -n 8192 -tb 4 -b 512 -ub 512 --cache-type-v q8_0 --cache-type-k q8_0 -fa auto -ngl 0 --temp 0.0 --reasoning off
MODEL: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-IQ2_XXS.gguf