can-i-run-this-llm

Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB) run Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 512.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE) at FP16 · 61.1 GB · 57–86 tok/s on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K11.3 GB117–175 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M14.7 GB109–164 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M18.6 GB101–152 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M21.7 GB96–144 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K25.1 GB91–136 tok/sRuns great
Q8_032.5 GB81–122 tok/sRuns great
FP1661.1 GB57–86 tok/sRuns great

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