Llama 3.2 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — Llama 3.2 3B @ Q8_0
Llama 3.2 3B at Q8_0 needs ~4.6 GB (weights 3.2 GB + KV 896 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 10.8 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~35–60 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K · runs to its full 128K
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✓ Q8_04.6 GB~35–60 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q5_K_M3.5 GB~50–80 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M3.3 GB~55–90 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install llama3.2:3b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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Llama 3.2: Runs comfortably
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Gemma 3

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Architecturally similar

These share Llama 3.2's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM too:

modelsharesverdict here
Qwen2.5-Coder 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd ❌ Won't fit
Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Mistral Small 3 8kv/128hd ⚠️ Partial GPU offload
Mistral Nemo 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Codestral 8kv/128hd ⚠️ Partial GPU offload
Llama 3.2 Vision 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mixtral 8x7B 8kv/128hd 🐢 CPU-only (slow)

…and 7 more — see the Llama 3.2 page.

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