Qwen3-Coder 80B-A3B (MoE) — VRAM Requirements

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated February 5, 2026

How much GPU VRAM you need to run Qwen3-Coder Qwen3-Coder 80B-A3B (MoE) by Alibaba Cloud locally, a 80B-parameter model. Figures are quantized weights + KV cache + framework overhead, computed from the model's parameter count and published architecture — not a throughput model. See /en/methodology.

Qwen3-Coder 80B-A3B (MoE) needs about 49 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M.

VRAM by Quantization

QuantBits/weightWeightsTotal VRAM
Q2_K2.6326.3 GB27.1 GB
Q3_K_M3.4134.1 GB34.9 GB
Q4_K_M4.8348.3 GB49.1 GB
Q5_K_M5.6756.7 GB57.5 GB
Q6_K6.5665.6 GB66.4 GB
Q8_08.5085.0 GB85.8 GB
F1616.00160.0 GB160.8 GB

Switch quantization in the interactive calculator, or see the full Qwen3-Coder model page.

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VRAM Requirements

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Estimates only — actual VRAM varies with context length, batch size, runtime and KV-cache settings.