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Can the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB run qwen3 8B?

TIGHT

5.8 of 6 GB usable — keep context modest

6GB · Pascal · model file 5.2GB · 8B

~10–18 tok/s

computed roofline: 192.2 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 5.2GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run qwen3 8B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 8B fully ($135)

rtx-2060-super — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

every model the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB can run — full list

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