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Home/Llama 3.2 1B/on RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4GB run Llama 3.2 1B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

149.8 tok/s

TTFT

1293 ms

Safe context

21K

Memory

3.0 GB / 4.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well149.8 tok/s1880 ms43K
ChatBRuns well149.8 tok/s705 ms11K
CodingBRuns well149.8 tok/s1293 ms21K
RAGBRuns well149.8 tok/s2350 ms43K
ReasoningBRuns well149.8 tok/s1528 ms21K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 1B (1B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4GB (4.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.4 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
0.5 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
0.6 GB
MediumD31
Q4_K_M
4
0.6 GB
MediumD31
Q5_K_M
5
0.7 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
0.8 GB
HighD32
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
1.1 GB
Very HighD34
F16
16
2.1 GB
MaximumD39

Get started

Ollama
ollama run llama-3.2-1b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download llama-3.2-1b
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