[r/LocalLLaMA] Evaluating Qwen3.5-35B & 122B on Strix Halo: Bartowski vs. Unsloth UD-XL Performance and Logic Stability

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A user evaluated Qwen3.5-35B and 122B models on Strix Halo, comparing Unsloth "dynamic" quants against a Bartowski quant using different `llama.cpp` builds. The tests revealed performance improvements for ROCm with a newer `llama.cpp` build, but not for Vulkan, and also noted potential logic stability issues with the "dynamic" quants.

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