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Can I run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE) locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 50 GB (qwen3-next:80b); Q8_0 85 GB (qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0).

Yes on 25 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 Max 64GB: Q4_K_M, about 47.2 GB, roughly 95 tokens per second, via LM Studio. lms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit

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

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M1 Max 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
M2 Max 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
M3 Max 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
M4 Max 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~130 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~130 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBLM StudioMLX 4bit47.2 GBfits in fast memory~146 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ4_K_M52.4 GBfits in fast memory~84 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M52.4 GBfits in fast memory~175 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M52.4 GBfits in fast memory~256 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~69 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~69 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~77 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~100 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~66 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~103 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~151 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~151 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-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 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~58 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-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 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~128 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~103 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~37 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-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 GGUF87.2 GBfits in fast memory~113 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-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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