Can the RTX 3050 OEM run Qwen3.5 9B?
Just. Qwen3.5 9B at Q4_K_M needs about 7.8 GB of the RTX 3050 OEM's 8 GB, running at an estimated 21 tok/s. Keep context short and close other GPU apps.
Every quantization
Qwen3.5 9B (9.7B) on 8 GB
| Quant | Weights | Needs | Fit | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 6 GB | 7.8 GB | Tight | ~21 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | 7 GB | 8.8 GB | Too big | - |
| Q8_0 | 10 GB | 11.8 GB | Too big | - |
| FP16 | 19 GB | 20.8 GB | Too big | - |
Estimates. Needs = weights + 1.8 GB for KV cache and runtime at modest context. Speed is single-stream decode scaled from the RTX 3050 OEM's 224 GB/s bandwidth (Estimated from memory bandwidth (llama.cpp decode)). Long contexts need more memory and run slower.
Run it
Copy, paste, go
llama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF -ngl 99Ollama pulls a Q4 build by default. Pick a larger quant only if the table above says it fits. Full Qwen3.5 9B details →
Compare
Same model, other hardware - and other models on this card
Qwen3.5 9B on other hardware
- RTX 5090~171 tok/s
- RTX 5090 D~171 tok/s
- RTX 6000D~150 tok/s
- RTX 4090~104 tok/s
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX~92 tok/s
- RTX 5080~92 tok/s
- RTX 3090~91 tok/s
- RTX 3080 Ti~87 tok/s
Also runs on the RTX 3050 OEM
- Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2~32 tok/s
- Qwen3.5 4B~43 tok/s
- Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507~64 tok/s
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B~64 tok/s
- Phi-4 Mini~51 tok/s
Frequently asked
Quick answers
Can the GeForce RTX 3050 OEM run Qwen3.5 9B?
Just. Qwen3.5 9B at Q4_K_M needs about 7.8 GB of the RTX 3050 OEM's 8 GB, running at an estimated 21 tok/s. Keep context short and close other GPU apps.
How much VRAM does Qwen3.5 9B need?
About 6 GB of weights at Q4_K_M, 10 GB at Q8_0 and 19 GB at FP16. Add roughly 1.8 GB for the KV cache and runtime at modest context lengths.
How fast is Qwen3.5 9B on the RTX 3050 OEM?
Roughly 21 tokens per second at Q4_K_M (single user, llama.cpp-style decode). This is an estimate from the RTX 3050 OEM's 224 GB/s memory bandwidth.