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Can I run Qwen3-8B-MLX-6bit on an RTX 4060?

Yes, just

Its published weights (6.40 GB) fit in the 7.20 GB an RTX 4060 can use, with room for ≈ 5K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3-8B-MLX-6bit Everything that runs on RTX 4060 Get the weights on Hugging Face
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Files and context on RTX 4060

Each file of Qwen3-8B-MLX-6bit (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.

FileSizeOn RTX 4060 Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
As published6.40 GBTight5K11K
4-bit (estimate)4.61 GBFits17K34K

Qwen3-8B-MLX-6bit on other hardware

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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.