Question 1

Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE?

Accepted Answer

qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE needs about 18.98GB working set (weights 18.6GB + KV cache 0.38GB at 4k context). The Intel Arc A770 16GB offers ~16GB usable — verdict: offload-partial. 19.0 GB vs 16 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss

Question 2

How fast is qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE on the Intel Arc A770 16GB?

Accepted Answer

~60–150 tok/s (active-expert estimate) on the Intel Arc A770 16GB. computed roofline: 560 GB/s × 0.20–0.50 efficiency window / 1.9GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. MoE: file is 18.6GB (that decides fit) but only ~3B of experts activate per token (~1.9GB streamed) — band below is the active-expert estimate, optimistic; community MoE rows run several× the naive bandwidth math

Question 3

What should I run qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE on instead?

Accepted Answer

Tesla V100 32GB (used) runs it fully ($700).

Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE?

Run qwen3-coder 30B-A3B MoE on instead