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Home/gemma 3 27b it/on GTX 1060 6GB

Can it run?

Can GTX 1060 6GB run gemma 3 27b it?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

6.9 tok/s

TTFT

28148 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

22.5 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights16.5 GB
KV Cache4.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy6.9 tok/s40942 ms7K
ChatFToo heavy6.9 tok/s15353 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy6.9 tok/s28148 ms4K
RAGFToo heavy6.9 tok/s51178 ms7K
ReasoningFToo heavy6.9 tok/s33266 ms4K

Quantization options

How gemma 3 27b it (27B params) fits at each quantization level on GTX 1060 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
10.5 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
13.2 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
15.1 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
16.5 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
19.4 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
22.1 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
28.9 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
55.4 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs gemma 3 27b it well

AMDRX 7900 XTX 24GBBest value
C41.5 tok/s decode

~$999 MSRP

AppleMac mini M4 64GBBudget pick
C5.2 tok/s decode

~$1,099 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 5090 32GBBiggest leap
B72.9 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

NVIDIANVIDIA A100 40GBNVIDIA upgrade
B79.3 tok/s decode

~$10,000 MSRP

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