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Lightreason repo documents 6-11x speedups running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen2.5-3B on one RTX 4090

My process to get 6-11X speedup running Qwen3.6 on my RTX 4090, full repo.

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Lightreason published a GitHub repo with its process for speeding up Qwen inference on a single RTX 4090, reporting 63.0 to 139.6 tok/s for Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct and 7.93 to 51.08 tok/s on a capped Python prompt for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. The 35B text weights occupy 64.56 GiB, so the runner keeps most expert weights in system RAM and moves only the ones Qwen uses, while the original BF16 target makes every final token decision. The checkout ships no checkpoint or adapter weights, and the 3B Studio quickstart targets Linux with CUDA 12.8 and PyTorch 2.9.1.

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