NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB × Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)
Can the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)?
No
No. Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) needs at least ~16.9 GB, but the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has ~15.2 GB usable. You would need CPU offloading (much slower) or more memory.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 16.9 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q4_K_M | 20.7 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q5_K_M | 24.0 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q6_K | 27.5 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q8_0 | 35.0 GB | ❌ | — |
| F16 | 64.4 GB | ❌ | — |
Fastest hardware for Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~272 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~175 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~173 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti — ~161 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — ~148 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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