Can Titan X Pascal 12GB run Qwen3-8B?

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Yes — the Titan X Pascal 12GB (12 GB GDDR5X) can run Qwen3-8B. At Q4 with the default 8K context it needs ≈ 7.15 GB VRAM (weights 4.51 GB + KV cache 1.64 GB + 1 GB runtime overhead), which fits within 12 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 37.3 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 19.04 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology. Buy Titan X Pascal 12GB on Amazon →

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	6.33 GB	Yes	37.3 ± est.
Q4	8K default	7.15 GB	Yes	37.3 ± est.
Q4	32K	12.07 GB	No	104.8 ± est.
FP16	4K	18.22 GB	No	12.6 ± est.
FP16	8K default	19.04 GB	No	11.6 ± est.
FP16	32K	23.96 GB	No	7.3 ± est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	Titan X Pascal 12GB VRAM
Q4	4.51 GB	1.64 GB	1 GB	7.15 GB	12 GB
FP16	16.4 GB	1.64 GB	1 GB	19.04 GB	12 GB

Other GPUs that run Qwen3-8B

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈620.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈411.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈372.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈260.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈254.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈158.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈139.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 4090 24GB — ≈104.3 tok/s Q4 measured

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Other models for the Titan X Pascal 12GB

• MiniCPM5-1B — ≈282.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.5-2B — ≈152.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx — ≈132.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈95.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 — ≈76.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 — ≈76.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 — ≈76.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-4-E2B-it — ≈59.9 tok/s Q4 est.

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