What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF?

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF requires approximately 9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF and how large is it?

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF is developed by unsloth, a model with 30b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF?

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF by unsloth — VRAM 9GB, 128K context

Name: Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF
Author: unsloth

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 9GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gguf Imatrix Q2 Quantized Qwen Qwen3 Qwen3 moe Region:us Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-128K-GGUF

Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 30B A3B 128K GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-128K-GGUF
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	9 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3_moe
Model Files	17.3 GB 16.4 GB 11.3 GB 11.3 GB 14.7 GB 13.3 GB 17.4 GB 19.2 GB 18.6 GB 17.5 GB 21.7 GB 21.1 GB 25.1 GB 32.5 GB 9.7 GB 9.0 GB 10.9 GB 10.4 GB 12.9 GB 11.8 GB 13.8 GB 17.7 GB 21.7 GB 26.3 GB 36.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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