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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on RTX 3060 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3060 12GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

152.1 tok/s

TTFT

1273 ms

Safe context

40K

Memory

4.8 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well152.1 tok/s1851 ms79K
ChatCRuns well152.1 tok/s694 ms20K
CodingCRuns well152.1 tok/s1273 ms40K
RAGCRuns well152.1 tok/s2314 ms79K
ReasoningCRuns well152.1 tok/s1504 ms40K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3060 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD31
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD32
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD32
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD33
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumD37

Get started

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