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Can I run Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ on an RTX 3060 12 GB?

No

Even its smallest file (As published, 17.9 GB) is more than an RTX 3060 12 GB can hold (10.8 GB usable): it needs 2 of them.

Full analysis of Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ Everything that runs on RTX 3060 12 GB

Files and context on RTX 3060 12 GB

Each file of Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

FileSizeOn RTX 3060 12 GB Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published17.9 GBDoesn't fit——

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ on other hardware

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