Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

81.3B total, 3B active · 256k context · apache-2.0 · released 2025-09-09

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What to run it on in India

Fully in memory at 32k context, priced at retailers today.

Something we price holds it fully in memory, but none reaches 15 tok/s, our bar for recommending it. The table below has the speeds.

All hardware that runs it

Everything we price, best value first. Two cards split the model by layers.

HardwareQuantFitsDecodePricetok/s per 1,000
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBQ8_0fits53 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GBQ4_K_Mfits40 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBQ8_0fits21 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GBQ8_0fits80 tok/s––
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GBQ8_0fits25 tok/s––
GMKtec EVO-X2 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBQ8_0fits21 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBQ8_0fits80 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GBQ4_K_Mfits80 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBQ6_Kfits97 tok/s––
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellQ8_0fits166 tok/s––
ASUS Ascent GX10 128GBQ8_0fits25 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GBQ4_K_Mfits32 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Q4_K_Moffload22 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090Q4_K_Moffload33 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090Q4_K_Moffload22 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXQ4_K_Moffload21 tok/s––
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700Q4_K_Moffload27 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiQ4_K_Moffload22 tok/s––
Intel Arc Pro B60Q4_K_Moffload18 tok/s––
NVIDIA Tesla P40Q4_K_Moffload19 tok/s––

20 other cards and machines we price cannot hold it at this context.

Memory needed

Weights, KV cache and runtime buffers at each context length (KV cache at fp16).

QuantFile@8k@32k@64k@128k
Q4_K_Mgguf45.2 GB46.2 GB46.9 GB47.8 GB49.7 GB
mlx-4bitmlx41.8 GB42.8 GB43.5 GB44.4 GB46.3 GB
Q5_K_Mgguf52.9 GB53.9 GB54.6 GB55.6 GB57.4 GB
Q6_Kgguf61.0 GB62.0 GB62.7 GB63.7 GB65.6 GB
mlx-8bitmlx78.8 GB79.8 GB80.5 GB81.5 GB83.4 GB
Q8_0gguf79.0 GB80.0 GB80.7 GB81.6 GB83.5 GB

Run it

Copy a command for the runtime you use.

  • Q4_K_M
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF@q4_k_m
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  • mlx-4bit
    • LM Studiolms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
    • MLXmlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
  • Q5_K_M
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q5_K_M
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF@q5_k_m
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q5_K_M
  • Q6_K
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q6_K
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF@q6_k
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q6_K
  • mlx-8bit
    • LM Studiolms get mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-8bit
    • MLXmlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-8bit
  • Q8_0
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0
    • LM Studiolms get unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF@q8_0
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0