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Home/Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct/on RTX 2060 6GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2060 6GB run Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

191.5 tok/s

TTFT

1011 ms

Safe context

27K

Memory

3.5 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.9 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well191.5 tok/s1470 ms55K
ChatCRuns well191.5 tok/s551 ms14K
CodingCRuns well191.5 tok/s1011 ms27K
RAGCRuns well191.5 tok/s1838 ms55K
ReasoningCRuns well191.5 tok/s1195 ms27K

Quantization options

How Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct (1.5B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2060 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.6 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
0.7 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
0.8 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
0.9 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
1.1 GB
HighD33
Q6_K
6
1.2 GB
HighD34
Q8_0
8
1.6 GB
Very HighD35
F16Best for your GPU
16
3.1 GB
MaximumC41

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