NVIDIA L40 meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
NVIDIA L40 can run lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit with Q4 quantization. At approximately 97 tokens/second, you can expect Good speed - acceptable for interactive use.
You have 33GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 15GB | 48GB | 97.26 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 31GB | 48GB | 58.45 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 61GB | 48GB | 35.83 tok/s | ❌ Not recommended |