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Best models for 8 GB VRAM

Our catalog lists 6 GPUs with 8 GB VRAM (RTX 3070 8GB, RTX 5060 8GB, RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, RX 7600 8GB and 1 more). The ranking uses the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB — the highest-bandwidth 8 GB card at 448 GB/s — and shows the 17 of 61 catalog models that fully fit it at Q4 / 8K context (weights + KV cache + 1 GB overhead within 95% of VRAM), fastest first. Methodology.

#ModelParams (B)Q4 tok/sVRAM needed (GB)Fit check
1Qwen3-0.6B0.8356.4 est.1.6fit check
2gemma-3-1b-it1.0285.1 est.1.75fit check
3Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2237.6 est.1.9fit check
4Qwen3-1.7B2.0142.5 est.2.5fit check
5Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.289.1 est.3.4fit check
6Phi-4-mini-instruct3.875.0 est.3.85fit check
7Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.875.0 est.3.85fit check
8gemma-3-4b-it4.373.1 est.4.15fit check
9Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.071.3 est.4.0fit check
10Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.071.3 est.4.0fit check
11Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.37.239.6 est.6.4fit check
12Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct7.637.5 est.6.7fit check
13Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct7.637.5 est.6.7fit check
14DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B7.637.5 est.6.7fit check
15Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct8.035.6 est.7.0fit check
16Qwen3-8B8.234.8 est.7.15fit check
17DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B8.234.8 est.7.15fit check

tok/s are bandwidth-based estimates unless tagged measured. Every 8 GB card fits the same set of models and ranks them identically; absolute tok/s scales with each card's bandwidth.

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