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Can the Surface Laptop Ultra (24GB) run qwen3 235B-A22B MoE?

NO

No. 24GB of memory can't hold the 178GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~5.1–13 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

weights 142GB + KV cache 0.73GB at 4k context vs ~22GB usable → no. 142.7 GB vs 22 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 273 GB/s × 0.25–0.65 efficiency window / 13.3GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

MoE: file is 142GB (that decides fit) but only ~22B of experts activate per token (~13.3GB streamed) — band below is the active-expert estimate, optimistic; community MoE rows run several× the naive bandwidth math

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Specs

model file142GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory178GB working set
this machine24GB unified LPDDR5X (18-core CPU / 5,120-core GPU base config)
params235B-A22B MoE
licenseapache-2.0
price$2599.99

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull qwen3:235b-a22b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

→ ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — cheapest machine that runs it ($60000)

→ rtx-5090 — the next step up from this machine's GPU

Buy

Microsoft (direct) ↗

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