QwQ-32B Reasoning on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB VRAM)
Full FP16 (70.23 GB) exceeds 48 GB VRAM, but 4-bit GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ requires 23.14 GB (20.48 GB weights + 2 GB KV cache at 8K context), delivering ~29.9 tokens/sec.
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23.14 GB / 48 GB🚀 Ready-to-Run Launch Command
ollama run qwq:32b # Or with llama.cpp server (8K context, Flash Attention): llama-server -hf Qwen/QwQ-32B-GGUF -c 8192 -ngl 99 -fa
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All Quantization Formats: QwQ-32B Reasoning on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
| Quantization Format | Bits/Weight | Weights VRAM | KV Cache (8K) | Total VRAM | Fits on 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB)? | Est. Speed | GPUs Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 (Unquantized) | 16 bpw | 67.57 GB | 2 GB | 70.23 GB | No (Over by 22.2GB) | ~1.2 tok/s | 2x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| FP8 (W8A8 / E4M3) | 8.5 bpw | 35.9 GB | 2 GB | 38.55 GB | Yes (80%) | ~17.1 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF Q8_0 (8-bit) | 8.5 bpw | 35.9 GB | 2 GB | 38.55 GB | Yes (80%) | ~17.1 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF Q6_K (6-bit) | 6.56 bpw | 27.7 GB | 2 GB | 30.36 GB | Yes (63%) | ~22.1 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF Q5_K_M (5-bit) | 5.69 bpw | 24.03 GB | 2 GB | 26.69 GB | Yes (56%) | ~25.5 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ (4-bit) | 4.85 bpw | 20.48 GB | 2 GB | 23.14 GB | Yes (48%) | ~29.9 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF IQ4_XS (4.25 bpw) | 4.25 bpw | 17.95 GB | 2 GB | 20.61 GB | Yes (43%) | ~34.2 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
| GGUF Q3_K_M (3-bit) | 3.91 bpw | 16.51 GB | 2 GB | 19.17 GB | Yes (40%) | ~37.1 tok/s | 1x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
Frequently Asked Questions (QwQ-32B Reasoning + NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada)
Can NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) run QwQ-32B Reasoning locally?
Yes — NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) can run QwQ-32B Reasoning using FP8 (W8A8 / E4M3). Full FP16 (70.23 GB) exceeds 48 GB VRAM, but 4-bit GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ requires 23.14 GB (20.48 GB weights + 2 GB KV cache at 8K context), delivering ~29.9 tokens/sec.
How is KV Cache calculated for QwQ-32B Reasoning?
QwQ-32B Reasoning uses Dense-GQA with 64 transformer layers, 40 attention heads, and 8 KV heads (head dimension 128). At 8,192 tokens in FP16, KV cache consumes 2 GB. Enabling 8-bit KV cache (-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 in llama.cpp or --kv-cache-dtype fp8 in vLLM) cuts this in half to 1.00 GB.