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Home/Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct/on RTX 5060 8GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 5060 8GB run Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

273.3 tok/s

TTFT

708 ms

Safe context

34K

Memory

3.7 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

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

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well273.3 tok/s1030 ms69K
ChatCRuns well273.3 tok/s386 ms17K
CodingCRuns well273.3 tok/s708 ms34K
RAGCRuns well273.3 tok/s1288 ms69K
ReasoningCRuns well273.3 tok/s837 ms34K

Quantization options

How Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct (1.5B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 5060 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.6 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
0.7 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
0.8 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
0.9 GB
MediumD32
Q5_K_M
5
1.1 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
1.2 GB
HighD33
Q8_0
8
1.6 GB
Very HighD34
F16Best for your GPU
16
3.1 GB
MaximumD38

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