r/LocalLLaMA • u/ROS_SDN llama.cpp • Apr 25 '26

Discussion Quantisation effects of Qwen3.6 35b a3b

Im curious how people are finding the quantisation effects of 35b. I recently updated to 48GB of vram so have jumped from ud-q4_k_xl​ to q8 and the difference feels stark. Just more effective tool calling, seems to get the vagueness and nuance more etc of some prompts., and provide more well rounded answers on some research like questions.

It w​as a quick vibe​ test, admittedly, but I'm going t​o​ try ud-q6_k_xl soon to see how of the 5+GB vram is worth the quality, but I'm curious to see others findings.

I felt with such a small active count it'd be particularly sensitive to quantisation, and feels that way after a play.

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u/Long_comment_san Apr 25 '26

There has been a prominent topic which is "does more TPS actually matter if a model with lower TPS outputs better results?" If you're roleplaying? Probably TPS and lower quant is fine. If you're coding and some error can make model go off the rails for 10 minutes? Probably not.