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Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — hardware requirements compared (measured)
Both sides use real GGUF file sizes from Hugging Face — not params×bits formulas. Updated daily.
| Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27B | 31B |
| Downloads (30d) | 6941k | 12661k |
| Quantizations published | 25 | 27 |
| Smallest build needs | 9.3 GB (UD-IQ1_S) | 11.1 GB (UD-TQ1_0) |
| Recommended quant needs | 13.0 GB (UD-Q2_K_XL) | 13.1 GB (UD-IQ1_M) |
| Lossless build needs | 61.2 GB | 74.8 GB |
Verdict: About the same hardware-wise. Capability is a different question (see benchmark leaderboards) — this page answers only “which one fits my machine, and at what quality cost?”
Will it run on your GPU?
At the recommended quant, 8K context:
| Hardware | VRAM/RAM | Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12GB | 12 GB | no | no |
| RTX 4070 12GB | 12 GB | no | no |
| RTX 4090 24GB | 24 GB | fits | fits |
| RTX 5090 32GB | 32 GB | fits | fits |
| Mac 24GB | 18 GB | fits | fits |
| Mac 64GB | 48 GB | fits | fits |