Running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally with text + vision

Qwen3.6 continues the strong trend of highly capable open models, and the 35B-A3B MoE variant hits a sweet spot for consumer hardware. With a low active parameter count per token, it runs fast while still retaining the "smart" feel of larger reasoning models, and includes multimodal capabilities out of the box. This post covers my setup running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 12GB VRAM using mainline…