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NVIDIA RTX 3060: local LLM speed
Llama 2 7B (Q4_0) generates 80.6 tokens/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 (Vulkan), and processes prompts at 2,013 tokens/s.
Measured results
| Model | Generate tok/s | Prompt tok/s | Quant | Backend | Test | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 2 7B | 80.6 | 2,013 | Q4_0 | Vulkan FA on | tg128 | llama.cpp #10879 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 76.9 | 2,408 | Q4_0 | CUDA FA on | tg128 | llama.cpp #15013 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 75.9 | 1,816 | Q4_0 | Vulkan FA off | tg128 | llama.cpp #10879 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 75.6 | 2,138 | Q4_0 | CUDA FA off | tg128 | llama.cpp #15013 details |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | 185 | 6,042 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg | LocalScore details |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 44.1 | 1,411 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg · n=2 | LocalScore LocalScore details |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | 26.6 | 759 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg | LocalScore details |
What fits on the NVIDIA RTX 3060
Estimates for this chip are scaled from a measured run: Llama 2 7B Q4_0 at 80.6 tok/s (Vulkan, source). Fit assumes the whole model in GPU memory with ~8K context.
| Model | Best quant that fits | File | Expected tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B | UD-IQ2_XXS | 7.3 GB | 42.4 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it | Q6_K | 9.8 GB | 31.5 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 32.3 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-4B | Q8_0 | 4.5 GB | 68.7 estimate |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | UD-IQ2_M | 10.0 GB | 100 estimate |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 32.3 estimate |
| gemma-4-E4B-it | Q8_0 | 8.2 GB | 37.6 estimate |
| Qwen3-4B | Q8_0 | 4.3 GB | 72.0 estimate |
| gemma-4-31B-it | UD-IQ2_XXS | 8.5 GB | 36.1 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | UD-Q4_K_XL | 6.7 GB | 45.9 estimate |
| gemma-3-1b-it | Q8_0 | 1.1 GB | 257 estimate |
| gemma-4-E2B-it | Q8_0 | 5.0 GB | 62.0 estimate |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B | Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | 35.4 estimate |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | Q8_0 | 3.4 GB | 90.0 estimate |
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