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Can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 run qwen3 4B?

FULL

3.2 GB needed of 48 GB usable — headroom for context

48GB · Ampere · model file 2.6GB · 4B

~140–220 tok/s

computed roofline: 768 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 2.6GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run qwen3 4B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 4B fully ($110)

RTX 4090 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA RTX A6000 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX A6000 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory