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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RTX 4070 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 4070 12GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

178.5 tok/s

TTFT

1085 ms

Safe context

36K

Memory

5.4 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well178.5 tok/s1578 ms70K
ChatCRuns well178.5 tok/s592 ms18K
CodingCRuns well178.5 tok/s1085 ms36K
RAGCRuns well178.5 tok/s1972 ms70K
ReasoningCRuns well178.5 tok/s1282 ms36K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 4070 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD33
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD33
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD34
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD35
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumC40

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for RTX 4070 12GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct