Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM

⚠️ Partial GPU offload — Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B @ Q4_K_M
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q4_K_M needs ~19.0 GB (weights 17.4 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 888 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 14.4 GB usable VRAM — some layers spill to system RAM. Expect ~45–75 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q4_K_M: runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
quantneedsspeed
✗ Q8_032.5 GB—
~ Q6_K25.3 GB—
~ Q4_K_M19.0 GB~45–75 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install qwen3-coder:30b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B: Partial GPU offload
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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