toolsWTF 6.0via r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen3.6 35b Q2_XXS: Being GPU poor in 2026 is not so bad
"Your toaster is now a game studio thanks to extreme quantization."
Explain Like I'm Normal
A user successfully ran a 35B parameter Qwen model on a low-end laptop with just 8GB of RAM and no dedicated GPU. By using ultra-aggressive IQ2_XXS quantization, the model can still generate functional game code at 3 tokens per second on hardware usually reserved for basic web browsing. This proves that high-end reasoning capabilities are rapidly becoming accessible to the 'GPU poor'.
#quantization#local-llm#qwen#edge-ai
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