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No. Qwen3-30B-A3B at Q4_K_M needs about 22.3 GB, and the Intel Arc B580 has 12.0 GB usable at a ~4k context.

Can I run Qwen3-30B-A3B on an Arc B580?

Qwen3-30B-A3B at Q4_K_M needs about 22.3 GB, and the Intel Arc B580 has 12.0 GB usable. That figure is 12 GB of VRAM on the spec sheet, of which 12.0 GB is usable for weights and cache, at 456 GB/s memory bandwidth. A Qwen3 Mixture-of-Experts with 30B total weights and about 3B active per token, so it needs 30B-class memory but can decode closer to a small dense model. These are estimates from our formula, not measured benchmarks.

Quant that fits

None of Q4, Q8 or FP16 needs 22.3 GB

Memory needed

22.3 GB at Q4_K_M, ~4k context

Usable VRAM

12.0 GB of 12 GB VRAM

Est. tokens/sec

n/a does not fit

Qwen3-30B-A3B · Intel Arc B580 · Everything this machine runs · Q4 vs Q8 vs FP16

Memory at each quant

Estimated tokens per second

No speed estimate: Qwen3-30B-A3B does not fit in the 12.0 GB this machine can use, so we do not publish a tokens/sec figure for CPU offload.

Context headroom

Even at a short ~4k context, the weights do not fit. Extending context would only increase the gap.

From the model’s config. Try other sizes in the VRAM calculator or see the context length guide.

What to do instead

• Run R1 Distill 14B instead (11.3 GB at Q4). It is a different model, not a drop-in, but it does fit this machine.
• To hold Qwen3-30B-A3B at Q4, you need about 22.3 GB. The GeForce RTX 3090 has 24.0 GB usable ($1499 list price).
• CPU offload can load the weights anyway, but it is slow. We do not publish an offload tokens/sec figure.
• See the best GPU for this model family and the Qwen3-30B-A3B model page.

Other hardware for Qwen3-30B-A3B

• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 3060 12GBWon’t fit
• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 3070 TiWon’t fit
• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 3080Won’t fit
• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 3090Tight
• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GBWon’t fit
• Qwen3-30B-A3B on an RTX 4070 Ti SuperWon’t fit

Other models on an Arc B580

• Qwen3-32B on an Arc B580Won’t fit
• Qwen3.8-27B on an Arc B580Won’t fit
• Gemma 3 27B on an Arc B580Won’t fit
• Gemma 4 31B on an Arc B580Won’t fit
• gpt-oss-20b on an Arc B580Won’t fit
• Mistral Small 24B on an Arc B580Won’t fit