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No. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE) does not fit on RTX 3080 12GB: Q4_K_M needs 23.9 GB and 11.5 GB is usable.
Hardware: RTX 3080 12GB · Model: Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)
RTX 3080 12GB has 12 GB of VRAM and 912 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker holds back 0.5 GB of VRAM for the driver and assumes 16 GB of system RAM, so fast memory usable by Ollama is 11.5 GB. Partial offload may also use 60% of that system RAM. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE) (36B, 3B active, Alibaba) at Q4_K_M is a 22 GB download and needs 23.9 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.
| Best quant | Q4_K_M |
|---|---|
| Download size | 22 GB |
| Memory needed | 23.9 GB |
| Usable fast memory | 11.5 GB |
| Fit | does not fit |
| Estimated speed | no estimate, it does not fit |
| Command | ollama run qwen3.5:35b |
Smallest hardware that runs it: RTX 4060 Ti 16GB at Q4_K_M (partial offload (slower), 23.9 GB needed, 15.5 GB usable, about 22 tok/s (estimate)). Can a RTX 4060 Ti 16GB run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)?
A smaller Alibaba model that fits this hardware: Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q4_K_M (partial offload (slower), 20.4 GB). Can a RTX 3080 12GB run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)?
Open RTX 3080 12GB in the checkerEstimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.
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