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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent

WaveCut/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent at Q4_K_M is exactly 14,398,842,656 bytes (13.41 GiB / 14.40 GB) — an effective 4.889 bits per weight, not the nominal 4. Its KV cache at 32K is 0.63 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
23.6B
total, not active
Architecture
qwen35moe
40 layers
Context
262,144
native (config.json)
License

Shipped quantizations

exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSizeExact bytesEffective bpwTensorsPublisher
IQ1_S5.24 GiB5,630,639,9041.912WaveCut
IQ1_S5.24 GiB5,630,639,9041.912BahamutRU
IQ1_M5.69 GiB6,109,669,1522.074WaveCut
IQ1_M5.69 GiB6,109,669,1522.074BahamutRU
IQ2_XXS6.43 GiB6,908,051,2322.345WaveCut
IQ2_XXS6.43 GiB6,908,051,2322.345BahamutRU
IQ2_XS7.03 GiB7,549,378,3362.563WaveCut
IQ2_XS7.03 GiB7,549,378,3362.563BahamutRU
IQ2_S7.14 GiB7,664,156,4482.602BahamutRU
IQ2_S7.14 GiB7,664,156,4482.602WaveCut
IQ2_M7.73 GiB8,302,862,1122.819BahamutRU
IQ2_M7.73 GiB8,302,862,1122.819WaveCut
Q2_K_S8.02 GiB8,616,417,0562.925WaveCut
Q2_K_S8.02 GiB8,616,417,0562.925BahamutRU
Q2_K8.49 GiB9,112,934,1763.094WaveCut
Q2_K8.49 GiB9,112,934,1763.094BahamutRU
IQ3_XXS8.89 GiB9,545,441,0563.241WaveCut
IQ3_XXS8.89 GiB9,545,441,0563.241BahamutRU
IQ3_XS9.43 GiB10,122,710,8163.437BahamutRU
IQ3_XS9.43 GiB10,122,710,8163.437WaveCut
Q3_K_S9.81 GiB10,537,635,6163.578BahamutRU
Q3_K_S9.81 GiB10,537,635,6163.578WaveCut
IQ3_S9.88 GiB10,605,874,9763.601BahamutRU
IQ3_S9.88 GiB10,605,874,9763.601WaveCut
IQ3_M9.99 GiB10,729,123,6163.643BahamutRU
IQ3_M9.99 GiB10,729,123,6163.643WaveCut
Q3_K_M10.77 GiB11,560,275,7443.925WaveCut
Q3_K_M10.77 GiB11,560,275,7443.925BahamutRU
Q3_K_L11.58 GiB12,432,690,9764.221WaveCut
Q3_K_L11.58 GiB12,432,690,9764.221BahamutRU
IQ4_XS11.97 GiB12,857,394,9764.365WaveCut
IQ4_XS11.97 GiB12,857,394,9764.365BahamutRU
Q4_012.59 GiB13,518,939,9364.590WaveCut
Q4_012.59 GiB13,518,939,9364.590BahamutRU
IQ4_NL12.60 GiB13,530,408,7364.594BahamutRU
IQ4_NL12.60 GiB13,530,408,7364.594WaveCut
Q4_K_S12.65 GiB13,578,118,9444.610WaveCut
Q4_K_S12.65 GiB13,578,118,9444.610BahamutRU
Q4_K_M13.41 GiB14,398,842,6564.889WaveCut
Q4_K_M13.41 GiB14,398,842,6564.889BahamutRU

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.08 GiB0.31 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30
8,1920.16 GiB0.63 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30
16,3840.31 GiB1.25 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30
32,7680.63 GiB2.50 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30
65,5361.25 GiB5.00 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30
131,0722.50 GiB10.00 GiB4.00×10 / 0 / 30

30 of 40 layers use linear attention, which keeps a fixed-size recurrent state instead of a per-token cache. Those layers do not grow with context at all — treating them as ordinary attention, as a flat formula does, overstates this model's cache by roughly 4.0× at long context.

Compare with

same modality, comparable size

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts Q4_K_M at roughly 12.34 GiB. The real file is 13.41 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
40
Attention heads
16
KV heads
2
Head dim
256
Hidden size
2048
Vocab
248,320
Sliding window
none
SWA period
MLA
no
Experts
160
Experts per token
8
use_sliding_window

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent need?
Q4_K_M is exactly 14,398,842,656 bytes (13.41 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent's KV cache?
0.63 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent a mixture-of-experts model?
Yes — 160 experts, 8 routed per token. Every expert must be resident, but only the routed ones are read per token, which is why its memory requirement and its speed behave very differently.
Which quantization of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agent should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.