How fast will Qwen3 30B A3B feel on the H100 80GB (cloud)?

Qwen3 30B A3B on the H100 80GB (cloud)

Qwen3 30B A3B is a 30.53B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3.3B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 19.3 GB of memory. The H100 80GB (cloud) has 74 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 519 tokens/sec (441–597), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M18.6 GBFits519 tok/s0.3 sProjected
Q8_032.5 GBFits297 tok/s0.3 sProjected
FP1661.1 GBFits158 tok/s0.3 sProjected

Qwen3 30B A3B on other hardware

Other models on the H100 80GB (cloud)

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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.