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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) run Qwen3 8B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 48.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 8B at FP16 · 16.4 GB · 37–56 tok/s on a NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K3.3 GB122–183 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M4.1 GB107–160 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M5.0 GB94–141 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M5.9 GB85–127 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K6.7 GB77–115 tok/sRuns great
Q8_08.7 GB63–95 tok/sRuns great
FP1616.4 GB37–56 tok/sRuns great

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