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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on RTX 3050 8GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3050 8GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

94.7 tok/s

TTFT

2045 ms

Safe context

29K

Memory

4.4 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

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

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well94.7 tok/s2975 ms58K
ChatCRuns well94.7 tok/s1116 ms14K
CodingCRuns well94.7 tok/s2045 ms29K
RAGCRuns well94.7 tok/s3719 ms58K
ReasoningCRuns well94.7 tok/s2417 ms29K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3050 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD33
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD34
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD35
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumC41

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--gemma-2-2b-it-gguf
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