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Home/Gemma 2 2B/on GTX 1660 Ti 6GB

Can it run?

Can GTX 1660 Ti 6GB run Gemma 2 2B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

129.8 tok/s

TTFT

1491 ms

Safe context

8K

Memory

3.8 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well129.8 tok/s2169 ms8K
ChatCRuns well129.8 tok/s813 ms8K
CodingCRuns well129.8 tok/s1491 ms8K
RAGCRuns well129.8 tok/s2711 ms8K
ReasoningCRuns well129.8 tok/s1762 ms8K

Quantization options

How Gemma 2 2B (2B params) fits at each quantization level on GTX 1660 Ti 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD32
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD33
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD34
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD36
F16
16
4.1 GB
MaximumC43

Get started

Ollama
ollama run gemma-2-2b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download gemma-2-2b
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