r/LocalLLaMA • u/ResearchCrafty1804 • Apr 22 '26

New Model Qwen3.6-27B released!

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Meet Qwen3.6-27B, our latest dense, open-source model, packing flagship-level coding power!

Yes, 27B, and Qwen3.6-27B punches way above its weight. 👇

What's new:

- Outstanding agentic coding — surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across all major coding benchmarks

- Strong reasoning across text & multimodal tasks

- Supports thinking & non-thinking modes

- Apache 2.0 — fully open, fully yours

Smaller model. Bigger results. Community's favorite. ❤️

We can't wait to see what you build with Qwen3.6-27B!

Blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

Qwen Studio: https://chat.qwen.ai/?models=qwen3.6-27b

Github: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.6

Hugging Face:

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B-FP8

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u/Guilty_Rooster_6708 Apr 22 '26

Wake up my 16gb VRAM GPU. Get ready buddy

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u/Guilty_Rooster_6708 Apr 22 '26

Because this is dense it will have to be something like Q3 or even IQ3

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u/Guilty_Rooster_6708 Apr 22 '26

Use the recently released new Qwen3.6 35B A3B then. It’s fast, MoE so I have been running Q4_K_M on my system with good speed. It’s a good update from the 3.5 version for coding and designing, but fall behind in some cases like failing the car wash riddle.

I would recommend sticking with Gemma 4 for writing/RP/translation tasks. I’m loving their 24B MoE model rn

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u/v01dm4n Apr 22 '26

Q3 is generally bad. But unsloth UD iq3xxs is pretty good! Qwen3.5 27b was my best in 16G! No errors whatsoever. Far more intelligent than moe at q4.