Can I Run Qwen 2.5 Family on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

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Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated July 12, 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M (8.4525 GB, ~23 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) Specs

VRAM12 GB
Memory Bandwidth360 GB/s

Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB): VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 12 GB?Max context
F1629.6 GB✗ No—
Q8_016.5 GB✗ No—
Q6_K13.1 GB✗ No—
Q5_K_M11.5 GB✓ Yes4K
Q4_K_M10.1 GB✓ Yes8K
Q3_K_M7.6 GB✓ Yes16K
Q2_K6.2 GB✓ Yes32K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 12 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 2.5 Family Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

Qwen 2.5 14B InstructQ4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~23 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 7B InstructQ4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~42 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Qwen 2.5 Family on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB) — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~3.5 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M (8.4525 GB, ~23 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 8K context.

Which Qwen 2.5 Family variant fits best on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (8.4525 GB), estimated ~23 tokens/sec, up to 8K context.

Every Qwen 2.5 Family size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct43.5 GBDoes not fit—
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B19.3 GBDoes not fit—
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct8.5 GBRuns~23 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct4.6 GBRuns~42 tok/s

Qwen 2.5 Family on Other GPUs

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