RTX 5060 Ti 16GB entry box
£1,595
Parts
Compatibility: No problems found.Est. load 320 W of 750 W · spikes to 428 W
| Component | Selection | Price | Where | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 16 GB · 448 GB/s · 180 W | £550 | eBay | Buy |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 AM5 · 6 cores · 24 PCIe lanes | £158 | Amazon | Buy |
| Motherboard | MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi AM5 · DDR5 · ATX | £180 | eBay | Buy |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2×16GB) DDR5-6000 32 GB · DDR5-6000 | £380 | eBay | Buy |
| Power supply | Corsair RM750e ATX 3.1 750W 750 W · ATX 3 | £84 | Amazon | Buy |
| Case | Corsair 4000D Airflow GPUs up to 360 mm | £63 | Amazon | Buy |
| Storage | Crucial P3 Plus 1TB 1000 GB NVME | £180 | eBay | Buy |
| Total | £1,595 | |||
- Note: Check the power connectors on the card you buy: this power supply has 1 12V-2x6 and 3 8-pin PCIe connectors.
- Note: Corsair 4000D Airflow fits graphics cards up to 360 mm: check the length of the card you buy.
What this build runs
The most precise quant that fits, at 128k context. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @128k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | Q4_K_M | fits | 15.3 GB | 128k | 30tok/sest. | 993 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q6_K | fits | 12.9 GB | 245k256k with q8 cache | 23tok/sest. | 637 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 14.4 GB | 155k256k with q8 cache | 20tok/sest. | 758 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 9.7 GB | 256k | 32tok/sest. | 1181 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 12.6 GB | 128k | 23tok/sest. | 1063 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | UD-Q6_K | fits | 14.1 GB | 125k | 23tok/sest. | 1421 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 3.4 GB | 32k | 130tok/sest. | 3192 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 3.7 GB | 256k | 114tok/sest. | 4257 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 4.3 GB | 256k | 91tok/sest. | 2722 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 6.7 GB | 128k | 49tok/sest. | 1426 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 15.3 GB | 128k | 36tok/sest. | 1644 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 9.2 GB | 128k | 33tok/sest. | 767 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 11.6 GB | 128k | 25tok/sest. | 984 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 11.6 GB | 32k | 25tok/sest. | 946 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 12.2 GB | 128k | 24tok/sest. | 333 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q6_K | fits | 14.3 GB | 128k | 20tok/sest. | 509 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 14.8 GB | 128k | 19tok/sest. | 607 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 15.1 GB | 128k | 19tok/sest. | 619 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 24.9 GB | – | 4tok/sest. | 197 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.3 GB | – | 4tok/sest. | 196 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.3 GB | – | 3tok/sest. | 173 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | MXFP4 | offload | 24.2 GB | – | 15tok/sest. | 970 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.2 GB | – | 4tok/sest. | 196 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 19.9 GB | – | 16tok/sest. | 1308 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.5 GB | – | 15tok/sest. | 964 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.1 GB | – | 6tok/sest. | 449 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 151 tok/s | chat |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | offload | 34.8 GB | – | 12tok/sest. | 1106 tok/s | chat |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 30.5 GB | – | 19tok/sest. | 653 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 30.7 GB | – | 4tok/sest. | 252 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q4_K_M | offload | 27.3 GB | – | 4tok/sest. | 230 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 151 tok/s | chat |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.1 GB | 43k79k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 210 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.8 GB | 38k40k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 177 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.1 GB | 68k124k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 296 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 24.1 GB | 40k | 5tok/sest. | 296 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.7 GB | 16k | 2tok/sest. | 166 tok/s | chat |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 23.3 GB | 71k129k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 305 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q4_K_M | offload | 26.6 GB | 58k107k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 256 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q4_K_M | offload | 22.0 GB | 77k128k with q8 cache | 6tok/sest. | 338 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-5bit | offload | 16.3 GB | 103k128k with q8 cache | 22tok/sest. | 996 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | offload | 17.4 GB | 64k | 11tok/sest. | 308 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 22.0 GB | 77k128k with q8 cache | 6tok/sest. | 338 tok/s | chat, coding |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 25.7 GB | 4k8k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 618 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 23.3 GB | 71k129k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 305 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 33.8 GB | 32k60k with q8 cache | 3tok/sest. | 148 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 153 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 153 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 153 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 34.8 GB | 8k15k with q8 cache | 2tok/sest. | 151 tok/s | chat |
| 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 | Q4_K_M | won't run | 64.4 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 | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 386.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 386.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 387.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 157.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 166.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | won't run | 169.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 83.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 90.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 249.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 432.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 446.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 758.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 588.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 588.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 588.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 588.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 161.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 161.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 147.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 263.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 115.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q4_K_M | won't run | 50.2 GB | – | – | – | – |