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Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-5bit

mlx-community/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-5bit
5-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
425M
Weights (est.)
≈ 292 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-5bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B (quantized) · Qwen3.6 27B on the radar →
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
5-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
49 in the last 30 days · 2.8K all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-06-01 · updated 2026-06-01 (5mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen3_5_mtp, mlx-vlm, qwen3.6, qwen3.6-27b, qwen, speculative-decoding, draft-model

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-4bit 4-bit ≈ 239 MB 8 GB+ 208
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-5bit (this one) 5-bit ≈ 292 MB 8 GB+ 49
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-bf16 bf16 ≈ 849 MB 8 GB+ 58
Huihui-Qwen3.6-27B-abliterated-4.5bit-msq 5-bit ≈ 4.6 GB 8 GB+ 44
Qwen3.6-27B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 49K
Qwen3.6-27B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 2.2K
Qwen3.6-27B-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 1.5K
Qwen3.6-27B-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 97
Qwen3.6-27B-5bit 5-bit ≈ 19.4 GB 24 GB+ 100
Qwen3.6-27B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 22.8 GB 32 GB+ 213
Qwen3.6-27B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 29.5 GB 48 GB+ 2.7K
Qwen3.6-27B-mxfp8 MXFP8 ≈ 29.5 GB 48 GB+ 749
Qwen3.6-27B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 54.7 GB 64 GB+ 1.1K