Yes — with 70.6 GB to spare

Qwen3 235B-A22B at Q4_K_M fits your CPU only · DDR5 8-channel server entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 4.6 tokens per second. There is room for its full 128K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 132.1 GB Apache 2.0 Released Apr 2025

Workstation class. Realistically a 192 GB unified-memory or multi-GPU model.

What hardware do I need for Qwen3 235B-A22B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 132.1 GB
Weights 132.1 GB KV cache @ 8K 1.47 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 70.6 GB of 204.8 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 232.5 GB 234.6 GB ~2.6 −0.1% ppl 29.8 GB over
Q6_K 179.5 GB 181.5 GB 128K 3.4 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 155.1 GB 157.2 GB 128K 3.9 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 132.1 GB 134.2 GB 128K 4.6 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 107.0 GB 109.0 GB 128K 5.7 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 91.6 GB 93.7 GB 128K 6.7 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 132.1 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03There is room to go to the model's full 128K context on this card.
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