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Can the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) (24 GB) run Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B?

65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, but slowly (tight fit)

Slow (tight fit). At Q3_K_M it needs about 18.1 GB of 21.1 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 6.7 tok/s.

Best quant
Q3_K_M
Generation speed
6.7 tok/s
Prompt processing
9.1 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
112.6 s
Largest safe context
38K

Best app to run it on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) (24 GB)

On Linux on ARM boards

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run qwen3-coder:30b
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

Reverse engineering? Serve Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B locally and use it from Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, radare2 or JADX with one of these:

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Recommended for the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) (24 GB): Q3_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run qwen3-coder:30b

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q3_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q3_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder (opens in a new tab)

Qwen’s coder repo, renamed from Qwen2.5-Coder to Qwen3-Coder.

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q3_K_M, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Slowtight fit
How well it runs on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) (24 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.29.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.24.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.6.1 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score74.6 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) (24 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 15.3 GB 21.1 GB 8.5 tok/s Slow 54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 18.1 GB 21.1 GB 6.7 tok/s Slowtight fit 65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 21.7 GB 21.1 GB 4.4 tok/s Slowover memory limit 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 24.8 GB 21.1 GB — Won't run 75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 28.1 GB 21.1 GB — Won't run 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 35.5 GB 21.1 GB — Won't run 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 64.2 GB 21.1 GB — Won't run 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B need on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) 24GB?

At Q3_K_M it needs about 18.1 GB. The Orange Pi AIpro (20T) 24GB has 21.1 GB usable.

How fast is Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) 24GB?

About 6.7 tok/s at Q3_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B should I use on the Orange Pi AIpro (20T) 24GB?

Q3_K_M. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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