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LLM User Seeks Advice on Upgrading to 40B+ Parameter Models for Speed and Knowledge

A user on the r/LocalLLaMA subreddit is seeking recommendations for large language models (LLMs) with over 40 billion parameters. They are currently using Qwen3.6 35B but find it lacks general knowledge and acts more as an executor than an assistant. The user is considering upgrading to Qwen3.5 122B but is concerned about maintaining speed, as they currently achieve around 30-40 tokens/second with a 131k context window on their Strix Halo hardware. AI

IMPACT User discussion highlights the trade-offs between model size, general knowledge, and inference speed for local LLM deployments.

RANK_REASON User discussion on model selection and performance.

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LLM User Seeks Advice on Upgrading to 40B+ Parameter Models for Speed and Knowledge

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/FeiX7 ·

    Best choice of model 40B+ Parameters

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>currently using Qwen3.6 35B as my main assistant model + coding agent</p> <p>but I think sometimes it misses basical general knowledge things, and it is more like executioner that assistant.</p> <p>That's why I though should I go with bigger mode…