Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B on Apple M2 · 16GB

❌ Won't fit — Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B @ Q4_K_M
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q4_K_M needs ~19.0 GB (weights 17.4 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 888 MB @ 8K ctx) — more than your 8.2 GB usable of 16.0 GB unified. Try a smaller model or a lower quant.
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✗ Q8_032.5 GB—
✗ Q6_K25.3 GB—
✗ Q4_K_M19.0 GB—

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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M2: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Llama 3.1 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3

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Architecturally similar

These share Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a Apple M2 · 16GB too:

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Yi 1.5 4kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
SmolLM3 3B 4kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Yi-Coder 9B 4kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)

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