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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell × Qwen3.6 35B-A3B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1672.8 GB of 96 GB
Weights 72 GBKV cache 0.2 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~179tokens per second
Max context256Kthe model's full window
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 72.8 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 179 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Qwen3.6 35B-A3B:

ollama run qwen3.6:35b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 22.6 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 96 GB the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality72.8 GBFits~179 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless39 GBFits~337 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent30.3 GBFits~437 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good26.4 GBFits~504 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular22.6 GBFits~591 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded18.4 GBFits~733 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded14.3 GBFits~956 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell? Add your real speed

One command times Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- qwen3.6:35b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="qwen3.6:35b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B comfortably

Models that run well on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Qwen3.6 35B-A3B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 72.8 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 179 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Qwen3.6 35B-A3B need?

About 22.6 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 72.8 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

Roughly 179 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth.