GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
NVIDIA
8GB VRAM · 240 GB/s bandwidth · 12.7 FP16 TFLOPS · 195W TDP
The GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 has 8GB of VRAM with 240 GB/s memory bandwidth and 12.7 TFLOPS FP16 compute. At Q4 quantization, it can comfortably run Gemma 3 4B (74 tok/s), Qwen 2.5 7B (39 tok/s), Llama 3.1 8B (37 tok/s). Models larger than ~14B parameters won't fit even at Q4. Electricity cost is approximately $21/month at 195W TDP.
What LLMs can you run?
| Model | Params | Q4 Weight | Fit | Decode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 3 4B | 4.0B | 2 GB | comfortable | 74 tok/s |
| Qwen 2.5 7B | 7.6B | 4 GB | comfortable | 39 tok/s |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 8.0B | 4 GB | comfortable | 37 tok/s |
| Mistral Small 24B | 24.0B | 12 GB | won't fit | |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27.4B | 14 GB | won't fit | |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B | 32.5B | 16 GB | won't fit | |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 70.6B | 35 GB | won't fit | |
| Qwen 2.5 72B | 72.7B | 36 GB | won't fit | |
| Llama 3.1 405B | 405B | 202 GB | won't fit | |
| DeepSeek R1 671B | 671B | 336 GB | won't fit |
Similar GPUs
| GPU | VRAM | BW | TFLOPS | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB | 8GB | 240 GB/s | 12.7 | 170W |
| Quadro P4000 | 8GB | 243 GB/s | 0.1 | 105W |
| Radeon Instinct MI6 | 8GB | 224 GB/s | 5.7 | 150W |
| Radeon Pro W5500 | 8GB | 224 GB/s | 10.4 | 125W |
| Radeon PRO W6600 | 8GB | 224 GB/s | 18.5 | 100W |
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