# Can I run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)?

> **No, not enough memory.** Needs ~20.7 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~11 GB is usable.

Last validated: 2026-06-15.

## Memory math
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B: 32B; Q4_K_M weighs 18.49 GB on disk.
- At Q4_K_M with a 4k context it needs ~20.7 GB (weights + KV cache + ~0.8 GB runtime overhead, ±15% with context length).
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB): 12 GB vram, ~11 GB usable for model weights.
- Headroom: ~-9.7 GB.

## How to run
Recommended quant: n/a. Best tool on Windows: LM Studio.

```sh
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
```

## Run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B on other devices
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/nvidia-rtx-4090-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/nvidia-rtx-3090-24gb)
- [AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/amd-rx-7900-xtx-24gb)
- [Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/nvidia-rtx-5090-32gb)
- [32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/laptop-32gb)
- [Apple M5 (32GB)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/apple-m5-32gb)

## Other models that run on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)
- [Phi-4 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/phi-4-14b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)
- [Qwen2.5 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-14b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)
- [Qwen3 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen3-14b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)
- [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)
- [Qwen2.5 Coder 14B (14B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-14b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)
- [Mistral Nemo 12B (12.2B)](https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/mistral-nemo-12b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb)

Estimate, not a guarantee. Sources: https://ollama.com/library/qwen2.5-coder, https://ollama.com/library/qwen2.5-coder/tags, https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-GGUF, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct.
More: https://localmodel.run/can-i-run/qwen2.5-coder-32b/nvidia-rtx-3060-12gb