NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB × Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Can the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?
Yes
Yes. The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB can run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at up to F16 (needs ~8.3 GB of 15.2 GB usable), at an estimated ~179 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 90.94 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 3.3 GB | ✅ | ~223 |
| Q4_K_M | 3.7 GB | ✅ | ~179 |
| Q5_K_M | 4.1 GB | ✅ | ~152 |
| Q6_K | 4.5 GB | ✅ | ~132 |
| Q8_0 | 5.2 GB | ✅ | ~102 |
| F16 | 8.3 GB | ✅ | ~54.3 |
Fastest hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~300 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~300 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — ~300 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti — ~300 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — ~300 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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