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Can I run Qwen3-VL 8B locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 6.1 GB (qwen3-vl:8b); Q8_0 9.8 GB (qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0).

Yes on 59 machines in this list. The smallest is RTX 3060 Ti 8GB: Q4_K_M, about 7.5 GB, roughly 44 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run qwen3-vl:8b

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

Open Qwen3-VL 8B in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
RX 7600 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~75 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
M1 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
M2 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
M3 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
M4 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M7.5 GBfits in fast memory~16 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~59 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M2 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~8 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M3 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~8 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M4 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~57 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~62 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~59 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~16 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~16 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M4 32GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~98 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~65 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~98 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~98 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~94 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF10.1 GBfits in fast memory~83 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-18.

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