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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

For running models locally, priced in Germany. At 8k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 44.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has more memory for models: 16 GB against 8 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 26; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.6× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (estimated, median across models). In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 costs 652 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 750 € at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is 98 € cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

652 €

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

750 €

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
GPUGeForce RTX 4060GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Memory8 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth272 GB/s448 GB/s
FP16 compute15.114 TFLOPS47 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power115 W180 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload18tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload63tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12Boffload21tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B25tok/sQ5_K_M28tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload18tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload21tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B24tok/sQ5_K_M28tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B24tok/sQ5_K_M28tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload20tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B35tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B27tok/sQ4_K_M27tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B25tok/sQ4_K_M26tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B29tok/sQ5_K_M33tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B88tok/sUD-Q5_K_M114tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B25tok/sQ5_K_M36tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B267tok/sQ8_0440tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B181tok/sQ8_0298tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B109tok/sQ5_K_M179tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B86tok/sQ8_0142tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B79tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B56tok/sQ8_092tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B50tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B50tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B50tok/smlx-4bit82tok/smlx-4bit
granite vision 4.1 4b39tok/sQ8_065tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251237tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b37tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260934tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251227tok/sQ4_K_M27tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash26tok/sQ4_K_M27tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B25tok/sQ6_K32tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B25tok/sQ5_K_M29tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload59tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload76tok/sQ4_K_M
Kimi VL A3Boffload60tok/smlx-6bit
GLM 4 9B 0414offload32tok/smlx-5bit
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offload18tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload20tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload23tok/smlx-8bit
Devstral Small 2507offload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2506offload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2507offload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2509offload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 26; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.6× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
In Germany the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 costs 652 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 750 € at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is 98 € cheaper.

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