Can I Run Qwen 2.5 Family on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

作者: Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新: 2024年11月12日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~2.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M (9.5 GB, ~38 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) Specs

VRAM12 GB
Memory Bandwidth360 GB/s

Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB): VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 12 GB?Max context
F1629.6 GB✗ No
Q8_016.5 GB✗ No
Q6_K13.1 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M11.5 GB✓ Yes4K
Q4_K_M10.1 GB✓ Yes8K
Q3_K_M7.6 GB✓ Yes16K
Q2_K6.2 GB✓ Yes32K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 12 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 2.5 Family Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

Qwen 2.5 14B InstructQ4_K_M · 9.5 GB · ~38 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 7B InstructQ4_K_M · 4.8 GB · ~75 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Qwen 2.5 Family on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~2.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M (9.5 GB, ~38 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

Which Qwen 2.5 Family variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (9.5 GB), estimated ~38 tokens/sec, up to 8K context.

Qwen 2.5 Family on Other GPUs

Popular Models on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

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