Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) on NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM)
Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) requires 148.87 GB VRAM (7x NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~5.6 tok/s).
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148.87 GB / 24 GB🚀 Ready-to-Run Launch Command
ollama run qwen3:235b # Or with llama.cpp server (8K context, Flash Attention): llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF -c 8192 -ngl 99 -fa
Need 148.87 GB+ VRAM to run Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE)?
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All Quantization Formats: Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) on NVIDIA RTX 3090
| Quantization Format | Bits/Weight | Weights VRAM | KV Cache (8K) | Total VRAM | Fits on 1x NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB)? | Est. Speed | GPUs Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 (Unquantized) | 16 bpw | 484.1 GB | 1.47 GB | 486.23 GB | No (Over by 462.2GB) | ~1.7 tok/s | 21x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| FP8 (W8A8 / E4M3) | 8.5 bpw | 257.18 GB | 1.47 GB | 259.3 GB | No (Over by 235.3GB) | ~3.2 tok/s | 11x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF Q8_0 (8-bit) | 8.5 bpw | 257.18 GB | 1.47 GB | 259.3 GB | No (Over by 235.3GB) | ~3.2 tok/s | 11x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF Q6_K (6-bit) | 6.56 bpw | 198.48 GB | 1.47 GB | 200.61 GB | No (Over by 176.6GB) | ~4.2 tok/s | 9x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF Q5_K_M (5-bit) | 5.69 bpw | 172.16 GB | 1.47 GB | 174.28 GB | No (Over by 150.3GB) | ~4.8 tok/s | 8x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ (4-bit) | 4.85 bpw | 146.74 GB | 1.47 GB | 148.87 GB | No (Over by 124.9GB) | ~5.6 tok/s | 7x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF IQ4_XS (4.25 bpw) | 4.25 bpw | 128.59 GB | 1.47 GB | 130.72 GB | No (Over by 106.7GB) | ~6.4 tok/s | 6x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
| GGUF Q3_K_M (3-bit) | 3.91 bpw | 118.3 GB | 1.47 GB | 120.43 GB | No (Over by 96.4GB) | ~7 tok/s | 6x NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
Frequently Asked Questions (Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) + NVIDIA RTX 3090)
Can NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) run Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) locally?
No — A single NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) cannot fit Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) in VRAM. Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) requires 148.87 GB VRAM (7x NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~5.6 tok/s).
How is KV Cache calculated for Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE)?
Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE) uses MoE-GQA with 94 transformer layers, 64 attention heads, and 4 KV heads (head dimension 128). At 8,192 tokens in FP16, KV cache consumes 1.47 GB. Enabling 8-bit KV cache (-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 in llama.cpp or --kv-cache-dtype fp8 in vLLM) cuts this in half to 0.73 GB.