Tip: Homelab MoE Consolidation — One Qwen3.5 122B MoE Replaces Three Specialized Models on Strix Halo 128GB

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

A practitioner running Proxmox with LXC containers consolidated from three separate models (coding, reasoning, chat) to a single Qwen3.5 122B MoE on a Strix Halo setup (Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, 128GB RAM, 96 GiB shared GPU via Vulkan/RADV). The MoE architecture with 40B active parameters matches or exceeds the specialized models across all tasks while simplifying infrastructure. With 79 upvotes and 41 comments, the post includes specific llama-server configurations and benchmark comparisons — a practical guide for anyone running local inference infrastructure.