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Can the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU run Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct needs about 16.2 GB even at Q2_K; the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU has 6.0 GB usable.

Download Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Recommended: Q2_K. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run qwen2.5:32b-instruct-q2_K

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q2_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q2_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3 (opens in a new tab)

Qwen’s main repo, renamed from Qwen2.5 to Qwen3; it still documents Qwen2.5.

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't run
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.6.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.0.0 / 15
Match score6.6 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 16.2 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 4 (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 19.1 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 5 (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 23.1 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 5 (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 26.3 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 6 (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 29.9 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 7 (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 37.8 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 9 (opens in a new tab)
F16 68.6 GB 6.0 GB — Won't run 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · part 1 of 17 (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Hardware that can run it

Models that do run on the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen2.5 32B Instruct need on the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 6GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 16.2 GB; the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 6GB has 6.0 GB usable.

What can the NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 6GB run instead?

Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B, Spark-X2.6 4B and Nanbeige4.2 3B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

RTX 5090 32GB, RTX 4090 24GB and RTX 3090 24GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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