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Can I run this LLM?

Can a MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB) run Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 64.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q8_0 · 32.5 GB · 43–65 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K11.3 GB76–114 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M14.7 GB68–102 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M18.6 GB60–91 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M21.7 GB55–83 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K25.1 GB51–76 tok/sRuns great
Q8_032.5 GB43–65 tok/sRuns great
FP1661.1 GB27–41 tok/sWon't fit

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