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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16GB) run Qwen3.5 9B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 16.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 9B at Q8_0 · 9.5 GB · 61–92 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K4.1 GB115–172 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M4.7 GB105–158 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M5.7 GB92–137 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M6.6 GB82–123 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K7.5 GB74–112 tok/sRuns great
Q8_09.5 GB61–92 tok/sRuns great
FP1617.9 GB35–53 tok/sWon't fit

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