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Home/Llama 3.2 3B/on RTX 4050 Laptop 6GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 4050 Laptop 6GB run Llama 3.2 3B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

76.6 tok/s

TTFT

2528 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 well76.6 tok/s3677 ms42K
ChatBRuns well76.6 tok/s1379 ms11K
CodingBRuns well76.6 tok/s2528 ms22K
RAGBRuns well76.6 tok/s4596 ms42K
ReasoningBRuns well76.6 tok/s2987 ms22K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 4050 Laptop 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD34
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD34
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD35
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD36
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD37
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD40
F16
16
6.1 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run llama-3.2-3b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download llama-3.2-3b
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