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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Laptop (8GB) run Qwen3.5 9B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 8.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 9B at Q3_K_M · 4.7 GB · 51–76 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Laptop (8GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K4.1 GB56–85 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M4.7 GB51–76 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M5.7 GB43–65 tok/sTight / slow
Q5_K_M6.6 GB38–57 tok/sWon't fit
Q6_K7.5 GB34–51 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_09.5 GB27–41 tok/sWon't fit
FP1617.9 GB15–23 tok/sWon't fit

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