Can I run Qwen3-4B on an RTX 5060?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q8_0 file from Qwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF (4.28 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 19K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3-4B Everything that runs on RTX 5060 Get the Q8_0 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF:Q8_0

Files and context on RTX 5060

Each file of Qwen3-4B (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

File	Size	On RTX 5060	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	8.04 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0Qwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF	4.28 GB	Fits	19K	39K
Q6_KQwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF	3.31 GB	Fits	26K	40K
Q5_K_MQwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF	2.89 GB	Fits	29K	40K
Q5_0Qwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF	2.82 GB	Fits	29K	40K
Q4_K_MQwen/Qwen3-4B-GGUF	2.50 GB	Fits	31K	40K

Qwen3-4B on other hardware

Popular models that run on RTX 5060

Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.