Qwen 3.6 Community Adoption Accelerates — 'First Local Model Worth the Effort', 187 t/s on RTX 5090 at Q5_K_S

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

Multiple r/LocalLLaMA posts confirm rapid Qwen 3.6 adoption. A 172↑ post calls it 'the first local model that actually feels worth the effort.' A 160↑ post shows 187 tokens/second on an RTX 5090 at Q5_K_S with 120K context. Unsloth GGUF benchmarks (231↑) show their quants win KLD vs disk space 21/22 times. A 99↑ post demonstrates the UD 2 K_XL quant 'pulling beyond its weight' — handling tool calls and large context properly even at aggressive quantization. The model runs on consumer hardware with usable performance.