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A benchmark guide showing how to run a 35-billion-parameter AI language model at usable speed (27 tokens/sec) on a consumer NVIDIA RTX 3060 with 12 GB of video memory, with exact commands and lessons learned.

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This repository, written in Traditional Chinese, is a detailed benchmark guide for running a large AI language model called Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a consumer graphics card with only 12 gigabytes of video memory. The specific card tested is the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB paired with an older X99 workstation platform. The question the guide tries to answer is whether ordinary home hardware can handle a 35-billion-parameter model at a usable speed.

The answer from the tests is yes. The author achieved around 27 tokens per second, which they describe as comfortable for daily use. Tokens are the units of text an AI model generates, and 27 per second means responses appear quickly rather than trickling in word by word. The guide provides the exact command-line parameters to reproduce this result using a tool called llama.cpp, which is a widely used program for running AI models locally.

The guide documents several lessons learned during testing. The most consequential was discovering that one version of the llama.cpp binary was silently falling back to CPU-only mode even though a GPU was present, which cut performance by about 2.5 times. A simple check command reveals whether the GPU is actually being used. The author also found that adjusting a parameter called n-cpu-moe had more impact on speed than the parameters most people tune first. The guide also notes that for 12 gigabytes of video memory, the standard version of the model outperforms the speculative-decoding variant because the draft component of that variant consumes video memory that would otherwise hold more of the model on the GPU.

The repository contains organized notes covering the test environment, software setup, model details, commands used, analysis of results, and conclusions. Raw benchmark data in CSV format is included for anyone who wants to extend the testing or create charts.

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