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Home/Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct/on RTX 4060 Laptop 8GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 4060 Laptop 8GB run Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

27.6 tok/s

TTFT

7012 ms

Safe context

6K

Memory

22.3 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights18.3 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy27.6 tok/s10199 ms11K
ChatFToo heavy27.6 tok/s3825 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy27.6 tok/s7012 ms6K
RAGFToo heavy27.6 tok/s12749 ms11K
ReasoningFToo heavy27.6 tok/s8287 ms6K

Quantization options

How Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct (30B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 4060 Laptop 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
11.7 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
14.7 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
16.8 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
18.3 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
21.6 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
24.6 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
32.1 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
61.5 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct well

AMDRX 7900 XTX 24GBBest value
C99.4 tok/s decode

~$999 MSRP

AppleMac mini M4 64GBBudget pick
C12.4 tok/s decode

~$1,099 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 5090 32GBNVIDIA upgrade
B172.7 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

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

 

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