How much GPU memory does qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai need?

About 5.2 GB: 2.42 GB of weights and the runtime's own memory.

What is the cheapest GPU to run qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai?

Right now one GTX 1660 at $0.07 an hour; RTX 5060 Ti at $0.16 an hour is the best value for its speed. Prices are live offers from GPU clouds, checked every 15 minutes.

Can qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai run on an RTX 4090?

Yes: it needs about 5.2 GB and an RTX 4090 has 24 GB.

Models / Qwen3 / Qwen3 0.6B

Starlinghq/qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai

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Starlinghq/qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai needs about 5.2 GB of GPU memory. It runs on one GTX 1660 from $0.07/h right now; best value: RTX 5060 Ti at $0.16/h.

Weights: 2.4 GB
GPU memory needed: about 5.2 GB
Memory · disk: 8 GB · 36 GB
Licence: apache-2.0

Versions of Qwen3 0.6B

The same model packaged differently: a quantized version needs less GPU memory and runs on a cheaper machine.

Version	Runtime	Weights	GPU memory	Cheapest machine now
OriginalQwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base	vLLM	1.2 GB	4.6 GB	$0.10/h RTX 3060
InstructQwen/Qwen3-0.6B	vLLM	1.5 GB	4.9 GB	$0.10/h RTX 3060
Qwen3Guard Gen 0.6BQwen/Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B	vLLM	1.5 GB	4.9 GB	$0.10/h RTX 3060
FP8Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-FP8	vLLM	1.1 GB	4.4 GB	$0.10/h RTX 3060
unsloth bnb 4bit (unsloth)unsloth/Qwen3-0.6B-unsloth-bnb-4bit	vLLM	580 MB	3.9 GB	$0.10/h RTX 3060
ONNX (onnx-community)onnx-community/Qwen3-0.6B-ONNX	ONNX Runtime GenAI	520 MB	3 GB	$0.07/h GTX 1660
quantized.w4a16 (RedHatAI)RedHatAI/Qwen3-0.6B-quantized.w4a16	vLLM	860 MB	4.2 GB

Hardware and deploy

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Questions

How much GPU memory does qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai need?: About 5.2 GB: 2.42 GB of weights and the runtime's own memory.
What is the cheapest GPU to run qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai?: Right now one GTX 1660 at $0.07 an hour; RTX 5060 Ti at $0.16 an hour is the best value for its speed. Prices are live offers from GPU clouds, checked every 15 minutes.
Can qwen3-0.6b-ortgenai run on an RTX 4090?: Yes: it needs about 5.2 GB and an RTX 4090 has 24 GB.

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