Can RTX A6000 48GB run Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507?

NVIDIA · 48 GB GDDR6 · 768 GB/s bandwidth · Alibaba · 235.1B (active 22B) · MoE · model ctx up to 256K

No — Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 at Q4 needs ≈ 132.5 GB even at 4K context, beyond the RTX A6000 48GB's 48 GB GDDR6. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 8.1 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 475.6 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	132.5 GB	No	8.3 est.
Q4	8K default	134.71 GB	No	8.1 est.
Q4	32K	147.91 GB	No	6.7 est.
FP16	4K	473.4 GB	No	—
FP16	8K default	475.6 GB	No	—
FP16	32K	488.8 GB	No	—

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	RTX A6000 48GB VRAM
Q4	129.31 GB	4.4 GB	1 GB	134.71 GB	48 GB
FP16	470.2 GB	4.4 GB	1 GB	475.6 GB	48 GB

Other GPUs that run Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈231.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈153.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈23.1 tok/s Q4 est.

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Other models for the RTX A6000 48GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈610.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈488.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈407.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈244.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈162.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈162.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈162.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈162.9 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the RTX A6000 48GB →