The best GPU for running Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE) (2026)
Ranked from live rental prices and computed VRAM fit, not opinion. Every card is judged at Q4_K_M — the quantisation most people actually run — at 8k context, so it's a fair comparison. A card that can't fit Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE)at that quality isn't listed, because it could only run a crushed version.
Best value
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition
Best throughput per dollar among cards that fit.
Cheapest that runs it
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition
Lowest hourly rental that fits it — $0.271/hr, Q4_K_M.
No compromise
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Most headroom and highest throughput.
Every card that runs it, ranked
Best quantisation each card fits at 8k context, with the cheapest live rental and a bandwidth-derived throughput estimate. Sorted by tokens/sec per dollar.
| GPU | VRAM | VRAM used | ~tok/s | Cheapest rental | tok/s per $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | 96 GB | 46 GB48% | — | $0.400 | — |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition | 96 GB | 46 GB48% | — | $0.271 | — |
| AMD Radeon PRO W7900 | 48 GB | 46 GB96% | — | — | — |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation | 48 GB | 46 GB96% | — | $0.250 | — |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | 48 GB | 46 GB96% | — | $0.133 | — |
How this ranking is made — and its limit
Fit and throughput are computed from Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE)'s own configuration with the engine behind our cost-to-run page (bits-per-weight validated to 0.7% median error). Rental prices are the cheapest live figure across the providers we track, last updated Sat, 14 Nov 2026 01:20:08 GMT.
The value column ranks renting, because that's what we can price precisely. If you're buyinga card, the fit and throughput columns are exactly what you need — but we don't publish a purchase-price value ranking, because we don't have verified street prices and won't invent them. For the buy-vs-rent decision itself, see the guides below.
Tokens/sec is a bandwidth-derived estimate, not a benchmark — we don't run our own hardware tests (editorial policy).
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Running Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B-A3B (MoE): common questions
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Before you buy
Can a free local model replace GitHub Copilot? Mostly, with one catch
A local Qwen3-Coder can take over Copilot's chat and agent work for $0 a month and keep your code on your machine. Tab autocomplete is the catch. What Copilot costs since its June 2026 billing change, what GPU the local route needs, and who should keep paying.
How much VRAM do you need to run Qwen3-Coder? 24 GB for the 30B, 48 GB for Next, a server for the 480B
Qwen3-Coder comes in three sizes, not five. The 30B-A3B is a 19 GB download and fits a 24 GB card, Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B) needs about 48 GB, and the 480B flagship is a 290 GB server model. Exact sizes from Ollama and Hugging Face, how much context adds, and what to do on 8 to 16 GB.
How much VRAM do you need?
About 0.57 GB per billion parameters at 4-bit, plus room for context: the rule behind the numbers on this page, with worked examples.
The best GPU for local AI right now
The card with enough VRAM for your model at the lowest price, budget by budget.