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Home/StarCoder2 3B/on RTX 2060 6GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2060 6GB run StarCoder2 3B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

104.7 tok/s

TTFT

1850 ms

Safe context

22K

Memory

4.4 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

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

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well104.7 tok/s2691 ms42K
ChatBRuns well104.7 tok/s1009 ms11K
CodingBRuns well104.7 tok/s1850 ms22K
RAGBRuns well104.7 tok/s3363 ms42K
ReasoningBRuns well104.7 tok/s2186 ms22K

Quantization options

How StarCoder2 3B (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2060 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD33
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD34
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD35
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD35
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 HighC40
F16
16
6.1 GB
MaximumF0

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