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Can I run Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B (MoE) locally?

Alibaba · 30.5B parameters (3.3B active) · coding.

Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 19 GB (qwen3-coder:30b); Q8_0 32 GB (qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0).

Yes on 47 machines in this list. The smallest is RTX 3060 12GB: Q4_K_M, about 20.4 GB, roughly 18 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run qwen3-coder:30b

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~18 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~19 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~20 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~23 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~31 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~31 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~30 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBpartial offload (slower)~30 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~137 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~147 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~140 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
M4 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~29 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~80 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~90 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M20.4 GBfits in fast memory~262 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~32 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~139 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~92 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~59 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~139 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~139 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~52 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~116 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF33.8 GBfits in fast memory~102 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

Estimates, 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 2026-10-16.

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