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Home/Qwen 3 1.7B/on RTX 2060 6GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2060 6GB run Qwen 3 1.7B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

184.7 tok/s

TTFT

1048 ms

Safe context

26K

Memory

3.6 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.0 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well184.7 tok/s1525 ms33K
ChatCRuns well184.7 tok/s572 ms13K
CodingCRuns well184.7 tok/s1048 ms26K
RAGCRuns well184.7 tok/s1906 ms33K
ReasoningCRuns well184.7 tok/s1239 ms26K

Quantization options

How Qwen 3 1.7B (1.7000000476837158B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2060 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.7 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
0.8 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.0 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
1.0 GB
MediumD32
Q5_K_M
5
1.2 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
1.4 GB
HighD33
Q8_0
8
1.8 GB
Very HighD34
F16Best for your GPU
16
3.5 GB
MaximumC40

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-3-1.7b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-3-1.7b
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