I bought two RTX 3060 with 12 Gb each for a total of 24Gb VRAM. Sionce the cards are not top shelf anymore for gaming, they can be had used in the 200€ range, so my setup was 400€ over the cost of my existing PC. My PC, while not last gen was already pretty beefy, with a Ryzen 9 and 64 Gb RAM. I think 400€ to have a pretty good local AI setup is not bad at all.
I can run both the 27B and 35B version of Qwen3.6 on my 10GB VRAM 3080, and they run ok. You don’t need to put the entire model in VRAM, even if it’s probably beneficial.
Full quantisation? I’ve only got a 8GB 3070, but I’ll give it a go
Edit: Tried the unsloth/qwen3.6 with llama.CPP, and it failed to allocate a 26GB Vulcan buffer and died. Dunno what magic your using, no luck for me though :(
I run it using LM Studio, which defaults to Q4 quantization, I think. I was able to put about 10 layers on the GPU with 64k token context. That put me at about 9.1 GB VRAM usage, leaving some room for Video playback xD
This is for qwen 3.5, not 3.6, but the vram requirements are a little out there for most:
https://willitrunai.com/blog/qwen-3-5-27b-vram-requirements
16 to 55GB…
I mean that’s high but not unreasonable, especially with unified ram machines
and it’s even lower with MTP https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF
I bought two RTX 3060 with 12 Gb each for a total of 24Gb VRAM. Sionce the cards are not top shelf anymore for gaming, they can be had used in the 200€ range, so my setup was 400€ over the cost of my existing PC. My PC, while not last gen was already pretty beefy, with a Ryzen 9 and 64 Gb RAM. I think 400€ to have a pretty good local AI setup is not bad at all.
I can run both the 27B and 35B version of Qwen3.6 on my 10GB VRAM 3080, and they run ok. You don’t need to put the entire model in VRAM, even if it’s probably beneficial.
Full quantisation? I’ve only got a 8GB 3070, but I’ll give it a go
Edit: Tried the unsloth/qwen3.6 with llama.CPP, and it failed to allocate a 26GB Vulcan buffer and died. Dunno what magic your using, no luck for me though :(
I run it using LM Studio, which defaults to Q4 quantization, I think. I was able to put about 10 layers on the GPU with 64k token context. That put me at about 9.1 GB VRAM usage, leaving some room for Video playback xD
I’ll give LM studio a go, thanks.