Qwen on NVIDIA Ampere

Can I run Qwen3 4B on an RTX 3080 10GB?

Yes. Qwen3 4B at Q4_K_M uses 4.2 GB of the 8.6 GB available on a RTX 3080 10GB, and runs at about 160 tokens per second. You can push the context to 39K.

Runs comfortably

4.2 GB of 8.6 GB · 49%
09 GB
Weights 2.3 GB
KV cache 1.1 GB
Runtime overhead 0.8 GB

Qwen3 4B at Q4_K_M leaves 4.4 GB spare on a RTX 3080 10GB. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.

Generation160tok/s
Prompt processing3134tok/s
Max context39Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Qwen3 4B on a RTX 3080 10GB

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

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 7.5 GB 9.4 GB Won't fit 2K 26.6
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 3.9 GB 5.8 GB Runs comfortably 28K 104
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 3.9 GB 5.8 GB Runs comfortably 28K 104
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 3.7 GB 5.7 GB Runs comfortably 29K 108
Q6_K 6.56 3.1 GB 5.0 GB Runs comfortably 34K 127
Q5_K_M 5.67 2.7 GB 4.6 GB Runs comfortably 37K 143
Q5_K_S 5.52 2.6 GB 4.5 GB Runs comfortably 37K 146
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 2.5 GB 4.4 GB Runs comfortably 38K 149
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 2.5 GB 4.4 GB Runs comfortably 38K 149
MXFP4 4.25 2.5 GB 4.4 GB Runs comfortably 38K 149
Q4_K_M 4.85 2.3 GB 4.2 GB Runs comfortably 39K 160
Q4_K_S 4.58 2.2 GB 4.1 GB Runs comfortably 40K 167
Q4_0 4.55 2.2 GB 4.1 GB Runs comfortably 40K 168
IQ4_XS 4.25 2.0 GB 4.0 GB Runs comfortably 41K 175
Q3_K_M 3.91 1.9 GB 3.8 GB Runs comfortably 42K 185
IQ3_M 3.70 1.8 GB 3.7 GB Runs comfortably 43K 192
IQ3_XXS 3.06 1.5 GB 3.5 GB Runs comfortably 45K 215
Q2_K 2.63 1.4 GB 3.3 GB Runs comfortably 46K 235
IQ2_XXS 2.06 1.1 GB 3.0 GB Runs comfortably 48K 266
IQ1_M 1.75 1.0 GB 2.9 GB Runs comfortably 48K 288

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