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Can I run this LLM?

Can a MacBook Pro M3 Max (36GB) run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 36.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q4_K_M · 18.5 GB · 60–89 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M3 Max (36GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K9.9 GB79–119 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M13.2 GB70–106 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M18.5 GB60–89 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M21.8 GB54–82 tok/sTight / slow
Q6_K25.2 GB50–75 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_032.4 GB42–64 tok/sWon't fit
FP1661.1 GB27–40 tok/sWon't fit

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