Qwen3.5-9B

· llama.cpp · 64K context · Radeon RX 7600 XT · 16 GB

Alibaba's 9B model from February 2026: small enough for an 8 GB card, with a 64K–128K window. It thinks, calls tools and stays quick on modest hardware.

41 tok/sdecode

– tok/sprefill

64Kcontext window

Earlier checkSep 22, 2026

Run it

Follow the steps below to download and run this recipe. Omarchy Local AI lists the recipes it can launch on your hardware. The server then answers on http://localhost:8000/v1.

1 Download the weights

hf download unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  --revision 3885219b6810b007914f3a7950a8d1b469d598a5 \
  --local-dir ~/models/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF-3885219b

2 Start the server

docker run --rm \
  --device /dev/kfd --device /dev/dri \
  -p 8000:8080 \
  --shm-size 8g \
  -e HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 \
  -v ~/models/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF-3885219b:/models:ro \
  ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp@sha256:9e4536dfc7ec47fb9be2db36b25cca1eab45667509e3a1938356268d10d8d2cc \
  -m /models/Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8080 \
  --ctx-size 65536 \
  --n-gpu-layers 999 \
  --flash-attn auto \
  --jinja \
  --reasoning-format deepseek \
  --parallel 1

What it passed

✓ loadLoads and serves within an hour

✓ chatAnswers a plain question and stops on its own

– reasoningThinks separately and gets 17 × 23 right

– toolsCalls a tool with the right arguments and uses the result

– contextRecalls a code buried in a prompt that fills 85% of the window

– speedDecodes at 15 tok/s or more

Passed the older check (loads and chats); a full six-check run is pending.

Details

Weights: unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF @ 3885219b68 ›
Image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp@sha256:9e4536dfc7ec47fb9be2db36b25cca1eab45667509e3a1938356268d10d8d2cc
Launch: llama.cpp-qwen3.5-9b-q4-k-m-64k-v2 ›
Recipe file: registry/recipes/amd/rx-7600-xt-16gb/qwen3.5-9b.llama.cpp.64k.json ›
Model released: Feb 26, 2026
Tested: earlier acceptance