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Can the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU run Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B?

74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 2.0 GB of 8.0 GB usable and makes one decision in about 69 ms.

Best quant
Q8_0
Time per decision
69 ms
Decisions per second
15/s
Input assumed
512 tokens
Returns
Fixed labels

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU: Q8_0. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q8_0 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B-GGUF:Q8_0

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

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

How it’s rated

Quality 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, 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 Runs great
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX 2000 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.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.33.3 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.15.0 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.12.0 / 15
Match score85.3 / 100

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

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q4_K_M 1.7 GB 8.0 GB 55 ms Runs great 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 1.8 GB 8.0 GB 58 ms Runs great 71Great quality (A) · 71 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 1.8 GB 8.0 GB 61 ms Runs great 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 2.0 GB 8.0 GB 69 ms Runs great 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 2.7 GB 8.0 GB 102 ms Runs great 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 512-token input and about 6 tokens written. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B need on the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 8GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 2.0 GB. The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 8GB has 8.0 GB usable.

How fast is Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6B on the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 8GB?

It makes one decision in about 69 ms at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware and the size of the model.

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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