Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B on Apple M2 Max · 64GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B @ Q8_0
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q8_0 needs ~32.5 GB (weights 30.3 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 1.5 GB @ 8K ctx) of your 45.0 GB usable (of 64.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~45–70 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K · runs to its full 256K
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✓ Q8_032.5 GB~45–70 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q6_K25.3 GB~55–90 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M19.0 GB~65–110 tok/s (very fast)
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Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M2 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3 · Qwen2.5

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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 Max · 64GB too:

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