GeForce RTX 3060 8GB (desktop) for Local LLMs: VRAM and Model Fit
8 GB GDDR6 is discrete VRAM: 8,589,934,592 bytes (8.00 GiB). The default system reserve is 1,073,741,824 bytes (1.00 GiB), and the net is 7,516,192,768 bytes (7.00 GiB).
GeForce RTX 3060 8GB (desktop): 8.00 GiB gross, default reserve 1.00 GiB, net calculator budget 7.00 GiB. Vendor-marketed GB for discrete GPU VRAM is treated as GiB (2^30 bytes), matching physical GDDR/HBM module organization. This is an explicit unit assumption.
This result is an estimate, not a measured trace.Discrete VRAM
Models for this device
Gross vs reserve vs net budget
- NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3060 8GB desktop · desktop-gpu
- Memory kinddiscrete-vram
- Marketed8 GB GDDR6
- Gross8,589,934,592 bytes = 8.00 GiB
- Default reserve1,073,741,824 bytes = 1.00 GiB
- Net budget7,516,192,768 bytes = 7.00 GiB
The reserve is a configurable calculator assumption, not a measured desktop tax. Headless systems can lower it after measuring baseline board usage.
Catalog fit at 8,192 tokens
Each row is the same automatic pick as the calculator at 8,192 tokens: the highest precision at or above 3 bits per weight that fits. A file under that floor stays available for a manual choice and is not the automatic row. Concurrent sequences = 1, FP16 KV. Fit and software support are separate. Format compatibility is not a verified run.
Likely fits (28)
| Model | Quantization | Estimate | Fit | Software compatibility | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 0.85 GiB–1.24 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Gemma 3 1B IT | GGUF Q4_0 (Google QAT) gguf-q4_0 · 8192 tokens | 1.10 GiB–1.50 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-0.6B | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 1.60 GiB–2.04 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 2.11 GiB–2.53 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 2.11 GiB–2.53 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Official BF16 safetensors bf16 · 8192 tokens | 2.68 GiB–3.12 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-1.7B | GGUF Q8_0 gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 2.71 GiB–3.18 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-1.7B-Base | GGUF Q8_0 (mradermacher) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 2.71 GiB–3.18 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Gemma 3 4B IT | GGUF Q4_0 (Google QAT) gguf-q4_0 · 8192 tokens | 3.33 GiB–3.79 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 3.32 GiB–3.83 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 3.47 GiB–3.92 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 3.77 GiB–4.24 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 3.77 GiB–4.24 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Phi-4-mini-instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 4.93 GiB–5.45 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.20 GiB–5.72 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-4B | GGUF Q8_0 gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 5.24 GiB–5.77 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 5.24 GiB–5.77 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | GGUF Q8_0 (Qwen) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 5.24 GiB–5.77 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Phi-3.5-mini-instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.35 GiB–5.98 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2-7B-Instruct | GGUF Q5_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct | GGUF Q5_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| OpenMath-Nemotron-7B | GGUF Q5_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | GGUF Q5_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | GGUF Q5_K_M gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct | GGUF Q5_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7B | GGUF Q5_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q5_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.63 GiB–6.14 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Math-7B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 4.92 GiB–6.23 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.71 GiB–6.24 GiB | Likely fits | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
Tight (6)
| Model | Quantization | Estimate | Fit | Software compatibility | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-8B | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.93 GiB–6.48 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-8B-Base | GGUF Q4_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.93 GiB–6.48 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.93 GiB–6.48 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| granite-3.3-8b-instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (IBM) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 5.98 GiB–6.53 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-4-9B-0414 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 6.18 GiB–6.69 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Official BF16 safetensors bf16 · 8192 tokens | 6.98 GiB–7.54 GiB | Tight | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
Insufficient memory (52)
| Model | Quantization | Estimate | Fit | Software compatibility | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 8.34 GiB–8.94 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Gemma 3 12B IT | GGUF Q4_0 (Google QAT) gguf-q4_0 · 8192 tokens | 8.46 GiB–9.04 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-14B | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 9.76 GiB–10.39 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| phi-4 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 9.97 GiB–10.62 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| OpenMath-Nemotron-14B | GGUF Q4_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 10.00 GiB–10.64 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 10.00 GiB–10.64 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 10.00 GiB–10.64 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Phi-4-reasoning | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 10.12 GiB–10.77 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat | GGUF Q4_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 10.01 GiB–12.23 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3.8-27B | GGUF UD-IQ3_XXS (Unsloth) gguf-ud-iq3_xxs · 8192 tokens Only an extreme quantization (under 3 bits/weight) fits. It stays available to choose by hand and is not the automatic recommendation. | 10.96 GiB–13.32 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| gpt-oss-20b | MXFP4 safetensors mxfp4 · 8192 tokens | 13.13 GiB–13.78 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 14.72 GiB–15.45 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Official BF16 safetensors bf16 · 8192 tokens | 16.08 GiB–16.83 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | GGUF Q4_0 (Google QAT) gguf-q4_0 · 8192 tokens | 17.20 GiB–17.97 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 18.16 GiB–18.93 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 18.16 GiB–18.93 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 18.16 GiB–18.93 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-32B | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.53 GiB–21.41 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| OpenMath-Nemotron-32B | GGUF Q4_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| QwQ-32B | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 20.61 GiB–21.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Drama 3 | Unofficial int4 W4A16 (GPTQ-Marlin, with codec) int4-w4a16-community · 8192 tokens | 22.67 GiB–27.03 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 | GGUF Q4_K_M (mradermacher) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 27.62 GiB–28.59 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 42.23 GiB–43.57 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 43.61 GiB–44.98 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 45.96 GiB–47.29 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| gpt-oss-120b | MXFP4 safetensors mxfp4 · 8192 tokens | 61.18 GiB–62.79 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-4.5-Air | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 69.53 GiB–71.36 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 111.75 GiB–131.53 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| MiniMax-M2 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 130.90 GiB–133.99 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B | GGUF Q4_K_M (Qwen) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 133.99 GiB–137.11 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 133.99 GiB–137.11 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Official BF16 safetensors bf16 · 8192 tokens | 134.04 GiB–137.22 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | FP8 safetensors fp8 · 8192 tokens | 156.21 GiB–183.71 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-4.6 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 203.78 GiB–208.37 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-4.5 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 204.59 GiB–209.20 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| MiniMax-M3 | GGUF Q4_K_M (bartowski) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 244.40 GiB–249.71 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 318.04 GiB–373.58 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V3 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 377.32 GiB–443.15 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-R1 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 377.32 GiB–443.15 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V3-0324 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 377.32 GiB–443.15 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 377.79 GiB–443.71 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 378.22 GiB–444.21 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Muse Spark Open | Official NVFP4 safetensors nvfp4 · 8192 tokens | 498.47 GiB–508.91 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | FP8 safetensors fp8 · 8192 tokens | 475.99 GiB–558.80 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Ling-3.1-flash | Official FP8 safetensors (F8_E4M3 experts + BF16 remainder) fp8 · 8192 tokens | 535.11 GiB–628.26 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Kimi-K2-Instruct | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 578.81 GiB–679.50 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| Kimi-K2-Thinking | GGUF Q4_K_M (Unsloth) gguf-q4_k_m · 8192 tokens | 579.24 GiB–680.01 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
| GLM-5.3 | GGUF Q8_0 (Unsloth) gguf-q8_0 · 8192 tokens | 747.13 GiB–876.98 GiB | Insufficient memory | Not verified | This result is an estimate, not a measured trace. |
Measured vs planned evidence on this SKU
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Sources
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Family specs — Official spec table lists RTX 3060 Standard Memory Config 12 GB GDDR6 / 8 GB GDDR6. This record is the 8 GB SKU only (128-bit).
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