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Qwen 3 30B A3B locally
Qwen 3 30B A3B is an open-weight LLM from the Qwen family with 30B parameters. Main use: chat, RAG and general assistance. Detected minimum hardware: RTX A4500 (20 GB).
Technical facts
Parameters30B
Max context128k
Q4_K_M18.9 GB
Q5_K_M23.1 GB
Q833.5 GB
FP1667.1 GB
FamilyQwen
Last sync2026-05-12
Available quantizations
GGUF weightsQ4_K_M
18.9GB
Acceptable. Good compromise when VRAM is limited.
Q5_K_M
23.1GB
Good quality. Sweet spot for size and precision.
Q8
33.5GB
Near-FP16 quality. Comfortable for production.
FP16
67.1GB
Reference precision. Maximum quality, doubled VRAM.
Compatible GPUs
12 single-GPUGPUs that can run Qwen 3 30B A3B on a single card, ranked by VRAM headroom.
RTX A4500
NVIDIA20 GB · RTX A (Ampere)
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
RTX 4000 Ada
NVIDIA20 GB · RTX Ada
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
Radeon RX 7900 XT
AMD20 GB · RDNA 3
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
TITAN RTX
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX 20
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX 3090
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX 30
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX 30
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX 4090
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX 40
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
Quadro RTX 6000
NVIDIA24 GB · Quadro RTX
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX A5000
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX A (Ampere)
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX A5500
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX A (Ampere)
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
RTX 4500 Ada
NVIDIA24 GB · RTX Ada
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
NVIDIA A10
NVIDIA24 GB · Ampere DC
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
Recommended multi-GPU rigs
2x / 4x consumer GPUsFor Qwen 3 30B A3B at higher quantization or with more context, a multi-GPU rig gives more headroom.
2× RTX 3080 10GB
NVIDIA20 GB · RTX 30
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
2× Radeon RX 6700
AMD20 GB · RDNA 2
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
2× Arc B570
Intel20 GB · Arc Battlemage
18.9 / 20 GBtight · Q4
2× GTX 1080 Ti
NVIDIA22 GB · GTX 10
18.9 / 22 GBtight · Q4
2× RTX 2080 Ti
NVIDIA22 GB · RTX 20
18.9 / 22 GBtight · Q4
4× GTX 1060 6GB
NVIDIA24 GB · GTX 10
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
4× GTX 1660
NVIDIA24 GB · GTX 16
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
4× GTX 1660 Super
NVIDIA24 GB · GTX 16
18.9 / 24 GBcomfortable · Q4
Recommended rig
4× GTX 1060 6GB
Qwen 3 30B A3B with Ubuntu, vLLM, Open WebUI and the model already downloaded.
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VRAM estimates: parameters x bits/8 plus margin. Real performance varies by engine, context length and batch size.
sync: 2026-05-12