HARDWARE FIT CHECK • Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)6.41 GB / 16 GB VRAM

Can I Run Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?

Full VRAM footprint analysis, tokens/sec generation benchmark, and copy-paste Ollama & vLLM runtime commands for running Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct (7.6B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6) (16 GB).

✓ FITS IN VRAM6.41 GB (40%)~39 t/s

Target Hardware & Model

interactive
High-efficiency code assistant fitting 8GB–16GB consumer GPUs and developer laptops
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)

✓ Fits Comfortably in VRAM

✓ FITS IN VRAM
Required VRAM
6.41 GB
40% of hardware capacity (16 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
~39 tok/s
Dense model @ 288 GB/s
Available Headroom
+9.59 GB
Safe for OS display & full context
Memory Allocation & Headroom
6.41 GB allocated of 16 GB capacity
40% utilized
Weights: 4.56 GB
KV: (32K): 0.94 GB
Overhead: 0.91 GB
Free Headroom: +9.59 GB
Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~39 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6) (288 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~566 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).

Local Hardware Configurations & Pricing

High-bandwidth VRAM specs and current market prices
Consumer GPU
32 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)

Maximum tokens/sec on 27B–35B models & Blackwell FP4 quantization

1792 GB/s575W TDP
Consumer GPU
24 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)

The 24GB CUDA enthusiast standard for 14B–32B Q4_K_M models

1008 GB/s450W TDP
Multi-GPU Rig
48 GB VRAM

2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dual Rig (48GB Total VRAM)

Best price-to-VRAM homelab rig for Llama 3.3 70B Q4_K_M & Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Q8_0

1648 GB/s700W TDP
Consumer GPU
16 GB VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)

Lowest-cost 16GB VRAM GPU for running 8B–14B models and LoRA fine-tuning on a budget

288 GB/s165W TDP

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx • KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw15.2 GB0.94 GB17.42 GB (109%)~3 t/sPARTIAL
Q8_08.5 bpw8.06 GB0.94 GB10.03 GB (63%)~23 t/sFITS
Q6_K6.56 bpw6.23 GB0.94 GB8.14 GB (51%)~29 t/sFITS
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw5.4 GB0.94 GB7.28 GB (46%)~33 t/sFITS
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw4.56 GB0.94 GB6.41 GB (40%)~39 t/sFITS
FP44.25 bpw4.03 GB0.94 GB5.86 GB (37%)~44 t/sFITS
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw3.12 GB0.94 GB4.92 GB (31%)~56 t/sFITS
FAQ & Reference

Frequently Asked Questions: Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)

How much VRAM does Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct need on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?

At standard 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) with 32K context, Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct requires 6.41 GB of total VRAM (weights + KV cache + CUDA runtime overhead).

What inference speed will Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct achieve on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)?

Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB GDDR6)'s 288 GB/s memory bandwidth, expected decode speed is approximately 39 tokens per second.

Can I expand context beyond 32K tokens?

Each additional 32K tokens of context requires additional KV cache memory. For longer context windows, consider 8-bit or 4-bit KV cache quantization.