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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB) run Qwen3.5 4B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 12.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 4B at Q8_0 · 4.5 GB · 46–70 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q3_K_M1.8 GB86–130 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M2.6 GB70–105 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M3.0 GB62–94 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K3.5 GB56–84 tok/sRuns great
Q8_04.5 GB46–70 tok/sRuns great
FP168.4 GB27–41 tok/sTight / slow

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