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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RTX 6000 Ada 48GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 6000 Ada 48GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

371.7 tok/s

TTFT

521 ms

Safe context

86K

Memory

9.0 GB / 48.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom4.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well371.7 tok/s758 ms169K
ChatCRuns well371.7 tok/s350 ms43K
CodingCRuns well371.7 tok/s521 ms86K
RAGCRuns well371.7 tok/s947 ms169K
ReasoningCRuns well371.7 tok/s615 ms86K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 6000 Ada 48GB (48.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD31
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD32

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct well

AppleMacBook Pro M4 Max 96GBBudget pick
C162.4 tok/s decode

~$2,499 MSRP

AppleMacBook Pro M3 Max 128GBBest value
C113.3 tok/s decode

~$2,499 MSRP

AppleMacBook Pro M2 Max 96GBBiggest leap
C109.6 tok/s decode

~$3,199 MSRP

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