can-i-run-this-llm

Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) run Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 24.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q3_K_M · 14.7 GB · 185–278 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K11.3 GB204–306 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M14.7 GB185–278 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M18.6 GB168–252 tok/sTight / slow
Q5_K_M21.7 GB156–235 tok/sWon't fit
Q6_K25.1 GB146–218 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_032.5 GB126–189 tok/sWon't fit
FP1661.1 GB83–125 tok/sWon't fit

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