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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Qwen2.5 7B?

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell × Qwen2.5 7B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1616.3 GB of 96 GB
Weights 15.2 GBKV cache 0.5 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~71tokens per second
Max context32Kthe model's full window
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Qwen2.5 7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 16.3 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 71 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts Qwen2.5 7B:

ollama run qwen2.5:7b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 5.7 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 96 GB the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality16.3 GBFits~71 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless9.2 GBFits~133 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent7.3 GBFits~172 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good6.5 GBFits~198 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular5.7 GBFits~233 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded4.8 GBFits~289 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded3.9 GBFits~376 tok/s

Measured speed from real RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, next to our estimate.

No one has measured Qwen2.5 7B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell? Add your real speed

One command times Qwen2.5 7B 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 -- qwen2.5:7b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="qwen2.5:7b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run Qwen2.5 7B comfortably

Models that run well on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Frequently asked questions

Can NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run Qwen2.5 7B?

Yes. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell can run Qwen2.5 7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 16.3 GB of the 96 GB available, at roughly 71 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does Qwen2.5 7B need?

About 5.7 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 16.3 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is Qwen2.5 7B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

Roughly 71 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth.