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Home/Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct/on NVIDIA L40S 48GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA L40S 48GB run Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

6.4 tok/s

TTFT

30141 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

305.5 GB / 48.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights292.8 GB
KV Cache5.5 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom4.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy6.4 tok/s43841 ms5K
ChatFToo heavy6.4 tok/s16440 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy6.4 tok/s30141 ms4K
RAGFToo heavy6.4 tok/s54802 ms5K
ReasoningFToo heavy6.4 tok/s35621 ms4K

Quantization options

How Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct (480B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA L40S 48GB (48.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
187.2 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
235.2 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
268.8 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
292.8 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
345.6 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
393.6 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
513.6 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
984.0 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct well

AMDAMD Instinct MI350X 288GBBest value
C49.7 tok/s decode

~$8,000 MSRP

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