Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025)
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025) is an open-weights language model from Qwen, released July 30, 2025. It has 30B parameters (mixture-of-experts, 3B active). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 138.3, rank 131 of 256 rated models.
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The smallest common GPU it runs on is 6 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): Q6_K, GPU + experts in RAM, roughly 18 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 5.2 GB | 22.6 GB | ~18 |
| 8 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 7.2 GB | 20.6 GB | ~20 |
| 12 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 11.2 GB | 16.6 GB | ~24 |
| 16 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 15.2 GB | 12.6 GB | ~30 |
| 24 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q4_K_M (very good) | 21.5 GB | – | ~230 |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 27.8 GB | – | ~300 |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 70.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.6% |
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