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Can the NVIDIA RTX 2060 run qwen3 8B?

TIGHT

5.8 of 6 GB usable — keep context modest

6GB · Turing TU106 · model file 5.2GB · 8B

~31–47 tok/s

computed roofline: 336 GB/s × 0.48–0.72 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-5060-ti-16 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX 2060

every model the NVIDIA RTX 2060 can run — full list

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