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GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

GeForce RTX 3060 12GB has 12 GB GDDR6 and 360 GB/s. See which open models fit, at which quant, and roughly how fast. Figures below use the default memory (12 GB), 32 GB system RAM, and DDR5-5600 for anything that spills. Updated 2026-10-24.

Memory12 GB GDDR6

Bandwidth360 GB/s

Kindgpu

Year2021

192-bit GDDR6 at 15 Gbps = 360 GB/s. Source.

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Models that fit

Model	Verdict	Quant	Context	tok/s
Qwen3 14B 14.8B	Tight fit	Q5_K_S	4K	18–25
NousResearch Hermes 4 14B 14.8B	Tight fit	Q5_K_S	4K	18–25
Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512 13.5B	Tight fit	UD-Q5_K_XL	8K	18–25
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 13.5B	Tight fit	UD-Q5_K_XL	8K	18–25
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 14.8B	Tight fit	Q4_K_M	8K	19–25
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B 14.8B	Tight fit	Q4_K_M	8K	19–25
Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct 128K 14.8B	Tight fit	Q4_K_M	8K	19–25
phi 4 14.7B	Tight fit	Q4_K_M	8K	19–26
gemma 4 12b it 11.9B	Tight fit	Q6_K	8K	15–21
Qwen3.6 14B A3B FableVibes 13.8B	Tight fit	Q5_K_M	8K	85–117
Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 23.6B	Tight fit	UD-IQ3_XXS	8K	18–25
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 23.6B	Tight fit	UD-IQ3_XXS	8K	18–25
Magistral Small 2509 23.6B	Tight fit	UD-IQ3_XXS	8K	18–25
Qwen3.8 27B 27.3B	Tight fit	UD-Q2_K_XL	8K	19–26
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct 32.8B	Tight fit	IQ2_XXS	4K	20–27
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 32.8B	Tight fit	IQ2_XXS	4K	20–27
Qwen3 32B 32.8B	Tight fit	UD-IQ2_XXS	4K	19–26
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct 32.8B	Tight fit	UD-IQ2_XXS	4K	19–26
GLM 4 32B 0414 32.6B	Tight fit	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	20–28
GLM 4.6V Flash 9.4B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–26
GLM Z1 9B 0414 9.4B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–26
GLM 4 9B 0414 9.4B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–26
gemma 4 31B it 30.7B	Tight fit	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	12–16
Qwen3.8 9B Distill 9.2B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–27
Qwen3.5 9B 9.0B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–28
MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B 9.0B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–28
Qwythos 9B Claude Mythos 5 1M 9.0B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–28
Qwythos 9B v2 9.0B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–28
granite 4.2 8b 8.8B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–25
Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512 8.5B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–27
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 8.5B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	19–27
Swift Qwen3.8 27B 27.3B	Tight fit	IQ2_S	8K	19–26
Qwen3.5 27B 26.9B	Runs	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	22–30
Qwen3.6 27B 26.9B	Tight fit	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	20–27
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct 8.2B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–27
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B 8.2B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–27
Qwen3 8B 8.2B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–27
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking 8.2B	Tight fit	Q8_0	8K	20–27
gemma 3 27b it 27.0B	Runs	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	16–22
medgemma 27b text it 27.0B	Runs	UD-IQ2_XXS	8K	16–22

105 more models in the catalog do not fit this default profile, or ranked below the first 40 that do.

Example: Tight fit fully on your GeForce RTX 3060 12GB at Q5_K_S, 4K context, about 18–25 tok/s. Weights 9.56 GB plus 0.63 GB of KV cache — 10.6 GB of 10.9 GB usable. Weights shown in the verdict use GiB (the same 1024³ counting as GPU memory).