Can You Run Qwen3-8B? Every GPU, Tested

A model that doesn't fit doesn't run slowly, it doesn't run. Here's every card from our bench, sorted by measured speed.

Weights: bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-8B-GGUF

GPUs that run Qwen3-8B (11)

GPUSpeedVRAMBasis
NVIDIA B300270.35 tok/s288GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA B200253.14 tok/s192GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA H200251.04 tok/s141GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3244.2 tok/s80GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition226.88 tok/s96GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4152.8 tok/s80GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM4145.96 tok/s40GBEst.
NVIDIA L40S130.28 tok/s48GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA A10G83.04 tok/s24GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA L448.34 tok/s24GB✓ Measured
NVIDIA T437.37 tok/s16GB✓ Measured

Quick answers

What is the fastest GPU for Qwen3-8B?

NVIDIA B300 is the fastest card we've measured running Qwen3-8B, at 270.35 tok/s.

What is the cheapest GPU that can run Qwen3-8B?

NVIDIA T4 ($2,299 MSRP) is the cheapest card on our bench that runs Qwen3-8B, at 37.37 tok/s.

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