Qwen3.6 27B locally: the all-dense 24GB Qwen

Qwen3.6's dense 27B is the no-fuss 24GB-card option — every parameter fires, nothing to offload, a real 256K context. The VRAM math, the GPU, and… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

Qwen3.6 27B is the dense member of the Qwen3.6 line — the plain, all-parameters-active option next to the 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts model. At Q4_K_M our VRAM engine computes about 17.5 GB, so it…

27B params, dense (our engine sizes the full model at ~27.8B), 256K context, Apache-2.0 — from the card.

Q4_K_M ~17.5 GB, Q8_0 ~29.3 GB (computed by our VRAM engine, 16K context).

Fits a 24GB card at Q4; run qwen3.6:27b, not the bare tag.

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