Calculated from model configuration — not yet manually verified. Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B is not in the curated catalogue; its shape was read from the repository’s config.json. What that means.

Yes — with 29.7 GB to spare

Qwen3.5-27B at Q4_K_M fits your RTX A6000 entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 30 tokens per second. There is room for its full 256K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 15.6 GB Apache 2.0 Released 24 Feb 2026 Vision Not in the Ollama library

Sized from Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B's config.json — not a hand-verified catalogue entry.

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Read from config.json

Architecture
Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Parameters
27.78B
Active / token
dense
Layers
64 (16 with KV cache)
Attention heads
24
KV heads
4
Head dim
256
Context window
256K
Experts
none
KV cache / layer
2048 elements

Parameter count is safetensors index; the active count for mixture-of-experts models is computed from expert sizes and may differ from the model card by a few percent. Pipeline: image-text-to-text · 1,888,406 downloads.

GGUF conversions found

The llama.cpp command above uses the original repo id; point -hf at one of these if the original has no GGUF files.

The VRAM budget

weights 15.6 GB
Weights 15.6 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.50 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 29.7 GB of 46.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 27.5 GB 28.6 GB 256K 17 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 21.2 GB 22.3 GB 256K 22 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 18.3 GB 19.4 GB 256K 25 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 15.6 GB 16.7 GB 256K 30 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 12.6 GB 13.7 GB 256K 37 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 10.8 GB 11.9 GB 256K 43 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. Only 16 of its 64 blocks keep a per-token KV cache; the rest are linear-attention, Mamba or convolution blocks with a fixed-size state.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 15.6 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 256K context on this card.
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