Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q4 Runs 262K Context on 8GB 3070 Ti at 30+ Tokens/sec

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A practitioner reports running Alibaba's new Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (MoE, 3B active parameters) at Q4 quantization with 262K context on an 8GB RTX 3070 Ti at 30+ tokens/sec, pushable to 512K-1M with speed degradation past 150K. Qwen3.6 is a confirmed new release succeeding Qwen3.5 under Apache 2.0, continuing Alibaba's aggressive open-source MoE push — now rivaling much larger models on consumer hardware (74 upvotes, 30 comments).