NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB × Gemma 3 12B
Can the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run Gemma 3 12B?
No
No. Gemma 3 12B needs at least ~10.1 GB, but the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB has ~7.6 GB usable. You would need CPU offloading (much slower) or more memory.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 10.1 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q4_K_M | 11.6 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q5_K_M | 13.0 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q6_K | 14.4 GB | ❌ | — |
| Q8_0 | 17.4 GB | ❌ | — |
| F16 | 29.2 GB | ❌ | — |
Fastest hardware for Gemma 3 12B
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~150 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~96.2 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~95.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — ~94.1 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — ~91.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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