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RTX 4060 Ti 16GB budget build (32 GB DDR5)

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8run well
9with offload
2too large

Speeds marked measured come from reference results and verified community runs on this exact system; others are estimates.

Runs in accelerator memory 8

Fits entirely in GPU or unified memory — the fast path.

ModelRecommended downloadMemoryGeneration speed
Variant Phi-4Microsoft · 14.7B
1 other option
Q8_0 · LM Studio Communityllama.cppWith offload17.1 GiB~9 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M via llama.cpp8.3 GiB · LM Studio Community
10.7 of 15.2 GiB
~20 tok/s est.
Variant Gemma 2 9B ITGoogle DeepMind · 9.24BQ4_K_M via llama.cpp5.3 GiB · LM Studio Community
8.6 of 15.2 GiB
~30 tok/s est.
Variant Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8BMeta · 8.03B
2 other options
Q4_K_M · NousResearchllama.cppRuns well6.3 GiB~34 tok/s est.
Q6_K · NousResearchllama.cppRuns well7.9 GiB~26 tok/s est.
Q8_0 via llama.cpp8.0 GiB · NousResearch
9.8 of 15.2 GiB
~21 tok/s est.
Variant Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta · 8.03B
2 other options
Q4_K_M · LM Studio Communityllama.cppRuns well6.3 GiB~34 tok/s est.
FP8 · RedHatAISGLangRuns well10.3 GiB~20 tok/s est.
Q8_0 via llama.cpp7.9 GiB · LM Studio Community
9.8 of 15.2 GiB
~21 tok/s est.
Variant Qwen2.5 7B InstructQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 7.62B
2 other options
AWQ 4-bit · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)SGLangRuns well5.2 GiB~38 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)llama.cppRuns well5.5 GiB~36 tok/s est.
Q8_0 via llama.cpp7.5 GiB · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
8.8 of 15.2 GiB
~22 tok/s est.
Variant DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7BQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 7.62BQ4_K_M via llama.cpp4.3 GiB · LM Studio Community
5.2 of 15.2 GiB
~36 tok/s est.
Variant Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3Mistral AI · 7.25B
1 other option
Q4_K_M · LM Studio Communityllama.cppRuns well5.8 GiB~38 tok/s est.
Q8_0 via llama.cpp7.2 GiB · LM Studio Community
9.0 of 15.2 GiB
~23 tok/s est.
Variant Qwen2.5 14B InstructQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 14.8B
2 other options
Q4_K_M · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)llama.cppRuns well10.7 GiB25.5 tok/s measured
AWQ 4-bit · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)SGLangRuns well10.2 GiB~21 tok/s est.
Q6_K via llama.cpp11.3 GiB · LM Studio CommunityTight fit
13.7 of 15.2 GiB
~15 tok/s est.

Runs with partial offload to system RAM 9

Too big for accelerator memory alone; part of it runs from system RAM, which is much slower.

ModelRecommended downloadMemoryGeneration speed
Variant Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta · 70.6BQ3_K_M via llama.cpp32.1 GiB · Unsloth AI
36.4 of 15.2 GiB · 21.2 in RAM
~2 tok/s est.
Variant Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI · 46.7B (12.9B active)Q4_K_M via llama.cpp26.6 GiB · LM Studio Community
29.1 of 15.2 GiB · 13.9 in RAM
~11 tok/s est.
Variant Qwen2.5 32B InstructQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 32.8B
1 other option
Q5_K_M · LM Studio Communityllama.cppWith offload25.1 GiB~4 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M via llama.cpp18.7 GiB · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
21.9 of 15.2 GiB · 6.7 in RAM
~5 tok/s est.
Variant Qwen2.5-Coder 32B InstructQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 32.8B
1 other option
Q8_0 · LM Studio Communityllama.cppWith offload36.2 GiB~2 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M via llama.cpp18.7 GiB · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
21.9 of 15.2 GiB · 6.7 in RAM
~5 tok/s est.
Variant DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32BQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 32.8BQ4_K_M via llama.cpp18.7 GiB · LM Studio Community
21.9 of 15.2 GiB · 6.7 in RAM
~5 tok/s est.
Variant Qwen3 30B-A3BQwen Team (Alibaba Cloud) · 30.5B (3.3B active)
3 other options
Q4_K_M · Unsloth AIllama.cppWith offload19.3 GiB~50 tok/s est.
Q8_0 · LM Studio Communityllama.cppWith offload32.7 GiB~22 tok/s est.
Q8_0 · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)llama.cppWith offload32.7 GiB~21 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M via llama.cpp17.3 GiB · Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
19.2 of 15.2 GiB · 4.0 in RAM
~50 tok/s est.
Variant Gemma 3 27B ITGoogle DeepMind · 27.4BQ4_K_M via llama.cpp15.6 GiB · LM Studio Community
20.6 of 15.2 GiB · 5.4 in RAM
~6 tok/s est.
Variant Gemma 2 27B ITGoogle DeepMind · 27.2BQ4_K_M via llama.cpp15.5 GiB · LM Studio Community
19.5 of 15.2 GiB · 4.3 in RAM
~7 tok/s est.
Variant Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Mistral AI · 23.6B
1 other option
Q6_K · LM Studio Communityllama.cppWith offload20.5 GiB~6 tok/s est.
Q4_K_M via llama.cpp13.4 GiB · LM Studio Community
15.7 of 15.2 GiB · 0.5 in RAM
~12 tok/s est.
Too large for this hardware2 model variants
How this is calculatedMemory, fit and speed estimates

Memory = download size + fp16 KV cache for 8K tokens + runtime overhead. Usable memory is 95% of dedicated VRAM, a device-specific share of unified memory (75% by default), and 80% of system RAM for runtimes that can offload. Runtimes must load the file format and support a backend present on the hardware.

Estimated speed is bounded by memory bandwidth ÷ bytes read per token (active parameters for mixture-of-experts), shown in italics with est. and a ±35% range. Measured speeds are medians of reference results and verified public community runs on the same system, download and runtime. For each model we recommend the highest-precision download that fits, preferring not to offload.