Qwen3 comes in dense sizes and mixture-of-experts variants. The 30B-A3B model (30.5B total, 3.3B active per its model card) needs memory like a 30B model but each token only uses about 3.3B parameters, which suits unified-memory machines.
| Model | Params (total / active) | Est. memory, Q4 @ 8k ctx | Est. memory, Q8 @ 8k ctx | Cheapest fit in our data (Q4) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 4B | 4.0B / 4.0B | 4.9 GB | 6.8 GB | GeForce RTX 5060 ($299, GPU launch MSRP) |
| Qwen3 8B | 8.2B / 8.2B | 7.5 GB | 11.2 GB | GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB ($429, GPU launch MSRP) |
| Qwen3 14B | 14.8B / 14.8B | 11.5 GB | 18.2 GB | GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB ($429, GPU launch MSRP) |
| Qwen3 32B | 32.8B / 32.8B | 22.5 GB | 37.3 GB | GeForce RTX 3090 ($1,499, GPU launch MSRP) |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) | 30.5B / 3.3B | 21.1 GB | 34.9 GB | GeForce RTX 3090 ($1,499, GPU launch MSRP) |
| Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE) | 235B / 22B | 146.1 GB | 252.2 GB | No single device in our dataset |
Parameter counts: Hugging Face: Qwen3 model cards (e.g. Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B). Memory figures are our estimates (see methodology), not measurements.
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