What can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB run?
8 GB VRAM (~7.6 GB usable for models) · 288 GB/s memory bandwidth · launch MSRP $399
Measured: 63.86 tok/s on Llama 2 7B Q4_0 (llama.cpp tg128). Source: llama.cpp CUDA scoreboard (Llama 2 7B Q4_0, tg128, no FA)
| Model | Verdict | Best quant that fits | Est. tok/s (Q4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Yes | Q5_K_M (4K ctx) | ~50.3 |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | No | — | — |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Yes | Q8_0 | ~126 |
| Llama 4 Scout (17B active, 16 experts) | No | — | — |
| Qwen3 8B | Yes | Q5_K_M (4K ctx) | ~49.1 |
| Qwen3 14B | No | — | — |
| Qwen3 32B | No | — | — |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) | No | — | — |
| Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE) | No | — | — |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | No | — | — |
| Gemma 3 4B | Yes | Q8_0 | ~93.6 |
| Gemma 3 12B | No | — | — |
| Gemma 3 27B | No | — | — |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | No | — | — |
| Mistral Nemo 12B | Yes | Q3_K_M (4K ctx) | ~41.0 |
| Phi-4 14B | No | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | No | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | No | — | — |
| gpt-oss-20b (MoE) | No | — | — |
| gpt-oss-120b (MoE) | No | — | — |
| DeepSeek V3 / R1 671B (MoE) | No | — | — |
Estimated tok/s = calibrated bandwidth ÷ active weight size. Real results vary with runtime, context and drivers.
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