Will this model run on your hardware?
Can I run Qwen3-8B locally?
- 8.2B parameters
- context up to 40K
- licence: apache-2.0
- Weights: Qwen/Qwen3-8B · GGUF: Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF
Open this page in a browser to check it against your own GPU or Mac: the tool detects your hardware locally and shows the best quantization that fits, the memory it needs and an estimated speed.
Quantizations and file sizes
| Quantization | GGUF file |
|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 8.7 GB |
| Q6_K | 6.7 GB |
| Q5_K_M | 5.9 GB |
| Q4_K_M | 5.0 GB |
Run it locally
ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
llama serve -hf Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
LM Studio: open Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF