Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B on Apple M4 Pro · 48GB

✅ Runs (tight) — 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 33.0 GB usable (of 48.0 GB unified memory) — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~30–55 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
quantneedsspeed
✓ Q8_032.5 GB~30–55 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q6_K25.3 GB~40–70 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M19.0 GB~50–85 tok/s (very fast)
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Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B: Runs (tight)
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M4 Pro: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Mixtral 8x7B · Gemma 3

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