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Can I run this LLM?

Can a MacBook Pro M4 Pro (48GB) run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 48.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q6_K · 25.2 GB · 47–70 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M4 Pro (48GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K9.9 GB75–113 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M13.2 GB66–100 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M18.5 GB56–84 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M21.8 GB51–76 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K25.2 GB47–70 tok/sRuns great
Q8_032.4 GB39–59 tok/sWon't fit
FP1661.1 GB25–37 tok/sWon't fit

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