NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB · 360 GB/s · 170 W
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What it runs
Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @128k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | Q4_K_M | fits | 10.4 GB | 174k256k with q8 cache | 23tok/sest. | 347 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | fits | 10.8 GB | 144k238k with q8 cache | 22tok/sest. | 413 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 9.7 GB | 174k256k with q8 cache | 25tok/sest. | 643 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q5_K_M | fits | 10.1 GB | 128k | 24tok/sest. | 579 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 24.9 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 93 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.3 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 92 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.3 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 83 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 24.6 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 453 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.2 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 92 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 19.9 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 604 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.5 GB | – | 11tok/sest. | 454 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.1 GB | – | 5tok/sest. | 212 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | – | 2tok/sest. | 73 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | offload | 34.8 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 536 tok/s | – |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 30.5 GB | – | 15tok/sest. | 313 tok/s | chat, coding |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | offload | 15.7 GB | – | 12tok/sest. | 443 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 30.7 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 121 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q4_K_M | offload | 27.3 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 109 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | – | 2tok/sest. | 73 tok/s | – |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.1 GB | 18k34k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 100 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.8 GB | 14k26k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 85 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.1 GB | 41k74k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 139 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.1 GB | 40k | 3tok/sest. | 139 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.7 GB | 12k16k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 80 tok/s | chat |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 23.3 GB | 42k76k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 143 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q4_K_M | offload | 26.6 GB | 34k62k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 121 tok/s | chat, coding |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 12.4 GB | 108k125k with q8 cache | 15tok/sest. | 731 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q4_K_M | offload | 22.0 GB | 46k84k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 158 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 104.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 78.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 43.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 53.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | won't run | 49.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | MXFP4 | won't run | 65.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 41.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q2_K | won't run | 66.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | won't run | 49.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | won't run | 51.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 51.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
Specifications
From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.
- GPU
- GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
- Memory
- 12 GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 192-bit
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 25.6 TFLOPS
- Software
- CUDA
- Board power
- 170 W
- PCIe generation
- Gen 4
- PCIe lanes
- x16