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Can the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run Qwen3 14B?

RTX 4060 Ti 8GB × Qwen3 14B8K context
Yes, with heavy quantizationFits only at a low-quality quant
Memory at Q2_K7.5 GB of 8 GB
Weights 5.6 GBKV cache 1.3 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantQ2_KHeavily degraded
Speed~31tokens per second
Max context10Ktokens that fit at Q2_K
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Only just. Qwen3 14B fits on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB at Q2_K, which costs noticeable quality. Expect about 31 tokens/second. A card with more memory is a better experience.

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Run it with Ollama

Ollama's default qwen3:14b download is Q4_K_M, which needs about 10.9 GB, more than the 8 GB available. Download the Q2_K GGUF instead (LM Studio lists quants per model), or try a smaller context length.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 8 GB the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality31.5 GBToo big—
Q8_0Near-lossless17.7 GBToo big—
Q6_KExcellent14.1 GBToo big—
Q5_K_MVery good12.5 GBToo big—
Q4_K_MGood, most popular10.9 GBToo big—
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded9.2 GBToo big—
Q2_KHeavily degraded7.5 GBFits~31 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX 4060 Ti 8GB owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Qwen3 14B on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX 4060 Ti 8GB? Add your real speed

One command times Qwen3 14B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- qwen3:14b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="qwen3:14b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

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Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run Qwen3 14B?

Only just. Qwen3 14B fits on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB at Q2_K, which costs noticeable quality. Expect about 31 tokens/second. A card with more memory is a better experience.

How much VRAM does Qwen3 14B need?

About 10.9 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 31.5 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Qwen3 14B on the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB?

Roughly 31 tokens per second at Q2_K, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8GB's 288 GB/s memory bandwidth.