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Home/Qwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct/on Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB run Qwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

61.2 tok/s

TTFT

3164 ms

Safe context

43K

Memory

34.4 GB / 92.2 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights18.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom13.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well61.2 tok/s4603 ms85K
ChatCRuns well61.2 tok/s1726 ms21K
CodingCRuns well61.2 tok/s3164 ms43K
RAGCRuns well61.2 tok/s5754 ms85K
ReasoningCRuns well61.2 tok/s3740 ms43K

Quantization options

How Qwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct (30.5B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB (92.2 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
11.9 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
14.9 GB
LowD33
NVFP4
4
17.1 GB
MediumD34
Q4_K_M
4
18.6 GB
MediumD34
Q5_K_M
5
22.0 GB
HighD35
Q6_K
6
25.0 GB
HighD35
Q8_0
8
32.6 GB
Very HighD37
F16Best for your GPU
16
62.5 GB
MaximumC44

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-3-coder-30b-a3b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-3-coder-30b-a3b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct well

NVIDIANVIDIA GH200 96GBBudget pick
C450.5 tok/s decode

 

NVIDIANVIDIA H20 96GBBiggest leap
C450.5 tok/s decode

 

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