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Can I run Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF on an RTX 3090?

Yes, just

Its Q5_K_S file (21.1 GB) fits in the 21.6 GB an RTX 3090 can use, with room for ≈ 5K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF Everything that runs on RTX 3090 Get the Q5_K_S file on Hugging Face
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q5_K_S

Files and context on RTX 3090

Each file of Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF (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 3090 Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
BF1661.1 GBDoesn't fit——
UD-Q8_K_XL36.0 GBDoesn't fit——
Q8_032.5 GBDoesn't fit——
UD-Q6_K_XL26.3 GBDoesn't fit——
Q6_K25.1 GBDoesn't fit——
UD-Q5_K_XL21.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Q5_K_M21.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Q5_K_S21.1 GBTight5K10K
Q4_119.2 GBTight24K48K
Q4_K_M18.6 GBTight30K60K
UD-Q4_K_XL17.7 GBTight39K78K
Q4_K_S17.5 GBTight41K82K
Q4_017.4 GBTight42K84K
IQ4_NL17.3 GBTight43K85K
IQ4_XS16.4 GBFits52K104K
Q3_K_M14.7 GBFits68K137K
UD-Q3_K_XL13.8 GBFits77K155K
Q3_K_S13.3 GBFits83K165K
UD-IQ3_XXS12.8 GBFits87K174K
UD-Q2_K_XL11.8 GBFits97K195K
Q2_K_L11.3 GBFits102K204K
Q2_K11.3 GBFits103K205K
UD-IQ2_M10.8 GBFits107K214K
UD-IQ2_XXS10.3 GBFits112K224K
UD-IQ1_M9.63 GBFits119K238K
UD-IQ1_S8.91 GBFits126K252K
UD-TQ1_08.01 GBFits135K256K

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF on other hardware

Popular models that run on RTX 3090

Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.