NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB: Specs & Local-AI Compatibility
The budget door-opener for local AI: 12GB runs 7-8B models at 4-bit.
Specs
- Memory
- 12 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- Approx FP16
- 25 TFLOPS
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Process
- Samsung 8nm
- Power
- 170 W
- Launch
- 2021
Models this chip can run
Open models graded for a single NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB, best fit first.
- CodeLlama 13BCodeLlama · ~13B · 16K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~2.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Gemma 3 12BGemma 3 · ~12B · 128K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~2.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Mistral Nemo 12BMistral · ~12B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~2.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Gemma 2 9BGemma · ~9B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q8_0 (~10GB) with ~0.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~10GBRuns well - Llama 3.1 8BLlama · ~8B · 128K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~1.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - Qwen3 8BQwen · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~1.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - Granite 3 8BGranite · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~1.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek · ~8B · 128K ctx · MIT
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~1.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well
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