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Qwen 3 30B A3B

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1.1MDownloads785LikesApr 2025Released131K tokensContextApache 2.0License5 EntryQuality

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Quick specs

Parameters30.5B (3.3B active)
Architecturemoe (MoE)
Context131K tokens
Modalitytext
Min RAM11.9 GB
Rec. RAM18.6 GB (Q4_K_M)
LicenseApache 2.0
FamilyQwen
✓ Chat✓ Reasoning

About this model

We introduce the updated version of the Qwen3-30B-A3B non-thinking mode, named Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, featuring the following key enhancements:

  • •Significant improvements: in general capabilities, including **instruction following, logical reasoning, text comprehension, mathematics, science,...
  • •Substantial gains: in long-tail knowledge coverage across multiple languages
  • •Markedly better alignment: with user preferences in subjective and open-ended tasks, enabling more helpful responses and higher-quality text...
  • •Enhanced capabilities: in 256K long-context understanding

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AMD
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RX 7900 XTX 24GB~$999 — 96 tok/s
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Best overallB
RTX 5090 32GB~$1,999 — 167 tok/s

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Quantization options

VRAM estimates by quant level

No hardware detected — fit column shows raw VRAM estimates

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
11.9 GB
Low—
Q3_K_S
3
14.9 GB
Low—
NVFP4
4
17.1 GB
Medium—
Q4_K_M
4
18.6 GB
Medium—
Q5_K_M
5
22.0 GB
High—
Q6_K
6
25.0 GB
High—
Q8_0
8
32.6 GB
Very High—
F16
16
62.5 GB
Maximum—

Hardware compatibility

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Memory breakdown

Reference: NVIDIA A10 24GB

Weights18.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime0.9 GB
Headroom2.4 GB