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Home/Yi 1.5 6B/on RTX 3070 Ti 8GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 3070 Ti 8GB run Yi 1.5 6B?

CUsable

Tight fit

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Tight fit

Decode

119.6 tok/s

TTFT

1619 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

6.6 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights3.7 GB
KV Cache0.9 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCTight fit119.6 tok/s2354 ms4K
ChatBRuns well119.6 tok/s883 ms4K
CodingCTight fit119.6 tok/s1619 ms4K
RAGCTight fit119.6 tok/s2943 ms4K
ReasoningCTight fit119.6 tok/s1913 ms4K

Quantization options

How Yi 1.5 6B (6B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 3070 Ti 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
2.3 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
2.9 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
3.4 GB
MediumD37
Q4_K_M
4
3.7 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
4.3 GB
HighD40
Q6_KBest for your GPU
6
4.9 GB
HighC42
Q8_0
8
6.4 GB
Very HighC43
F16
16
12.3 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run yi-1.5-6b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download yi-1.5-6b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Yi 1.5 6B well

NVIDIARTX 5070 12GBBudget pick
C115.7 tok/s decode

~$549 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 4070 12GBBest value
C103.3 tok/s decode

~$599 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 3080 10GBBiggest leap
B157.8 tok/s decode

~$699 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 2080 Ti 11GBNVIDIA upgrade
C109.4 tok/s decode

~$999 MSRP

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