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Home/Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct/on RTX A5000 24GB

Can it run?

Can RTX A5000 24GB run Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs with offload

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs with offload

Decode

77.3 tok/s

TTFT

2504 ms

Safe context

16K

Memory

23.9 GB / 24.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights18.3 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom2.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns with offload (needs ~0 GB host RAM)77.2 tok/s3647 ms32K
ChatCRuns with offload77.3 tok/s1366 ms8K
CodingCRuns with offload77.3 tok/s2504 ms16K
RAGCRuns with offload (needs ~0 GB host RAM)77.2 tok/s4559 ms32K
ReasoningCRuns with offload77.3 tok/s2960 ms16K

Quantization options

How Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct (30B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX A5000 24GB (24.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
11.7 GB
LowD40
Q3_K_S
3
14.7 GB
LowC43
NVFP4Best for your GPU
4
16.8 GB
MediumC45
Q4_K_M
4
18.3 GB
MediumC45
Q5_K_M
5
21.6 GB
HighC45
Q6_K
6
24.6 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
32.1 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
61.5 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-3-vl-30b-a3b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct well

NVIDIARTX 5090 32GBBudget pick
B172.7 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

AppleMacBook Pro M4 Max 48GBBest value
B49.5 tok/s decode

~$2,499 MSRP

AMDAMD Instinct MI100 32GBBiggest leap
B114.8 tok/s decode

 

NVIDIARTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GBNVIDIA upgrade
B108.2 tok/s decode

 

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