Qwen 3.6 27B is a BEAST

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Summary

A developer reports that the new 27B Qwen 3.6 model runs excellently on a 24GB VRAM laptop, passing all PySpark/Python data-transformation benchmarks and eliminating the need for cloud subscriptions.

I have a 5090 Laptop from work, 24GB VRAM. I have been testing every model that comes out, and I can confidently say I’ll be cancelling my cloud subscriptions. All my tool call and data science benchmarks that prove a model is reliably good for my use case, passed. It might not be the case for other professions, but for pyspark/python and data transformation debugging it’s basically perfect. Using llama.cpp, q4\_k\_m at q4\_0, still looking at options for optimising.
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