Qwen on NVIDIA Ampere

Can I run Qwen3 14B on an RTX A6000?

Yes. Qwen3 14B at Q4_K_M uses 10.5 GB of the 44.3 GB available on a RTX A6000, and runs at about 52.3 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.

Runs comfortably

10.5 GB of 44.3 GB · 24%
044 GB
Weights 8.5 GB
KV cache 1.3 GB
Runtime overhead 0.8 GB

Qwen3 14B at Q4_K_M leaves 33.8 GB spare on a RTX A6000. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.

Generation52.3tok/s
Prompt processing1066tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Qwen3 14B on a RTX A6000

Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 27.5 GB 29.6 GB Runs comfortably 102K 17.0
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 14.3 GB 16.4 GB Runs comfortably 128K 32.0
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 14.3 GB 16.4 GB Runs comfortably 128K 32.0
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 13.8 GB 15.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 33.2
Q6_K 6.56 11.3 GB 13.4 GB Runs comfortably 128K 40.0
Q5_K_M 5.67 9.7 GB 11.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 45.8
Q5_K_S 5.52 9.5 GB 11.6 GB Runs comfortably 128K 47.0
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 9.4 GB 11.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 47.2
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 9.4 GB 11.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 47.2
MXFP4 4.25 9.4 GB 11.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 47.2
Q4_K_M 4.85 8.5 GB 10.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 52.3
Q4_K_S 4.58 8.0 GB 10.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 54.7
Q4_0 4.55 8.0 GB 10.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 55.0
IQ4_XS 4.25 7.5 GB 9.6 GB Runs comfortably 128K 58.1
Q3_K_M 3.91 7.0 GB 9.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 62.0
IQ3_M 3.70 6.7 GB 8.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 64.7
IQ3_XXS 3.06 5.7 GB 7.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 74.6
Q2_K 2.63 5.0 GB 7.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 83.1
IQ2_XXS 2.06 4.2 GB 6.3 GB Runs comfortably 128K 98.0
IQ1_M 1.75 3.7 GB 5.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 109

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