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Can the RTX 3050 Laptop run qwen3 30B-A3B MoE?

NO

19.0 GB vs 4 GB usable — does not fit

4GB · Ampere GA107 · model file 18.6GB · 30B-A3B MoE

~57–91 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

computed roofline: 192 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 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

Run qwen3 30B-A3B MoE on instead

Mac mini M4 (32GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 30B-A3B MoE fully ($999)

every model the RTX 3050 Laptop can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the RTX 3050 Laptop · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory