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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 16.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q2_K · 11.3 GB · 137–206 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K11.3 GB137–206 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M14.7 GB120–181 tok/sWon't fit
Q4_K_M18.6 GB106–159 tok/sWon't fit
Q5_K_M21.7 GB96–144 tok/sWon't fit
Q6_K25.1 GB88–132 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_032.5 GB74–110 tok/sWon't fit
FP1661.1 GB45–68 tok/sWon't fit

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