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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RTX 2060 6GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2060 6GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

90.4 tok/s

TTFT

2141 ms

Safe context

20K

Memory

4.8 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well90.4 tok/s3114 ms39K
ChatBRuns well90.4 tok/s1168 ms10K
CodingBRuns well90.4 tok/s2141 ms20K
RAGBRuns well90.4 tok/s3892 ms39K
ReasoningBRuns well90.4 tok/s2530 ms20K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2060 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD34
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD35
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD36
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD36
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD37
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD38
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
3.2 GB
Very HighC41
F16
16
6.1 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for RTX 2060 6GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct