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Can the NVIDIA RTX A5000 run qwen3 8B?

FULL

5.8 GB needed of 24 GB usable — headroom for context

24GB · Ampere · model file 5.2GB · 8B

~68–110 tok/s

computed roofline: 768 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 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-a6000 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX A5000

every model the NVIDIA RTX A5000 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX A5000 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory