Can I run Qwen3-8B on an RTX 5060?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q5_K_M file from Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF (5.85 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 9K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3-8B Everything that runs on RTX 5060 Get the Q5_K_M file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q5_K_M

Files and context on RTX 5060

Each file of Qwen3-8B (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	16.4 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF	8.71 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q6_KQwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF	6.73 GB	Doesn't fit	3K	6K
Q5_K_MQwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF	5.85 GB	Tight	9K	18K
Q5_0Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF	5.72 GB	Fits	10K	20K
Q4_K_MQwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF	5.03 GB	Fits	14K	29K

Qwen3-8B 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.