Qwen3 30B A3B is a 30.53B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3.3B active per token). Smaller quantizations need less memory and run faster, at some cost in quality. Below is the expected speed on each piece of hardware at the best quantization that fits.
| Hardware | Quantization | Memory | Generation | First token |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H200 141GB (cloud) | Q4_K_M | Fits | 744 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| H100 80GB (cloud) | Q4_K_M | Fits | 519 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| A100 80GB (cloud) | Q4_K_M | Fits | 316 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 282 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 278 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 278 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 274 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 222 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 193 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 184 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 156 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 145 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 144 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 128 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| MacBook M3 Max 48GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 94 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 93 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 87 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 84 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 75 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB (Strix Halo) | Q4_K_M | Fits | 73 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 72 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 64 tok/s | 0.4 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 62 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 58 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 4070 12GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 51 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB | Q4_K_M | Partial offload | 46 tok/s | 1.2 s |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB | Q4_K_M | Fits | 42 tok/s | 0.3 s |
| CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) | Q4_K_M | Fits | 30 tok/s | 0.4 s |
| MacBook M4 Pro 24GB | Q4_K_M | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — |
| MacBook M2 Pro 16GB | Q4_K_M | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — |
Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.