Can I run this LLM?

Can a MacBook Pro M3 Pro (18GB) run Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 18.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes, but it's tight.

Best fit: Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q2_K · 11.3 GB · 48–72 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M3 Pro (18GB).

Every quantization on this machine

Quant	Size	Speed	Fit
Q2_K	11.3 GB	48–72 tok/s	Tight / slow
Q3_K_M	14.7 GB	42–62 tok/s	Won't fit
Q4_K_M	18.6 GB	36–54 tok/s	Won't fit
Q5_K_M	21.7 GB	32–49 tok/s	Won't fit
Q6_K	25.1 GB	29–44 tok/s	Won't fit
Q8_0	32.5 GB	24–36 tok/s	Won't fit
FP16	61.1 GB	14–22 tok/s	Won't fit

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