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August 23, 2026No. 113
GeForce RTX 5060 · 8GB GDDR7

Can the GeForce RTX 5060 run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?

Does not fit at Q4_K_M.

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is 32.5B parameters. At Q4_K_M the weights are about 18.2 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 19.7 GiB against the card's 8GB, about 11.7 GiB more than the card has.

All three quants

8GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant18.2 GiB19.7 GiBDoes not fitshort 11.7 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless32.1 GiB33.6 GiBDoes not fitshort 25.6 GiB
FP16full weights60.5 GiB62.0 GiBDoes not fitshort 54.0 GiB

Verdict rules: fits comfortably when weights plus reserve sit within 85% of VRAM; tight when they fit with little left for context; CPU offload when they exceed VRAM by up to 2x (runs, slowly, with layers in system RAM); no beyond that. The KV cache per token depends on the model's architecture and is not modelled here.

Not this card. These fit it comfortably at Q4.

What the GeForce RTX 5060 does run well → · Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct on every card →

About the model

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by Alibaba Qwen: 32,768-token native context, text, released 2024 under the Apache-2.0. Model card → · Hosted pricing on PicksByModel →

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