Qwen3

Feb. 4, 2026 / Hardware Insights

Qwen3 Coder Next 80B A3B: what it takes to run it locally

Direct answer first: Qwen3 Coder Next 80B A3B is one of the most hardware-friendly 80B-class coding models released so far. Thanks to its MoE design with roughly 3B active parameters, a single high-VRAM GPU can run it at full 256k context, and even dual consumer GPUs can handle the 3-bit version comfortably. VRAM, not raw...