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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) run Qwen3 8B?

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

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 8B at Q4_K_M · 5.0 GB · 34–51 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (8GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K3.3 GB48–71 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M4.1 GB40–60 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M5.0 GB34–51 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M5.9 GB30–45 tok/sWon't fit
Q6_K6.7 GB27–40 tok/sWon't fit
Q8_08.7 GB21–32 tok/sWon't fit
FP1616.4 GB12–18 tok/sWon't fit

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