Can RTX 3060 12GB run Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16?

NVIDIA · 12 GB GDDR6 · 360 GB/s bandwidth · NVIDIA · 30.0B (active 3.0B) · MoE · model ctx up to 256K

No — Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16 at Q4 needs ≈ 17.8 GB even at 4K context, beyond the RTX 3060 12GB's 12 GB GDDR6. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 95.9 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 61.6 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	17.8 GB	No	99.2 est.
Q4	8K default	18.1 GB	No	95.9 est.
Q4	32K	19.9 GB	No	79.3 est.
FP16	4K	61.3 GB	No	—
FP16	8K default	61.6 GB	No	—
FP16	32K	63.4 GB	No	—

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	RTX 3060 12GB VRAM
Q4	16.5 GB	0.6 GB	1 GB	18.1 GB	12 GB
FP16	60.0 GB	0.6 GB	1 GB	61.6 GB	12 GB

Other GPUs that run Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈1697.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈1124.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈1018.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈710.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈694.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈432.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈380.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 4090 24GB — ≈213.8 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16 →

Other models for the RTX 3060 12GB

• MiniCPM5-1B — ≈212.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈122.9 tok/s Q4 measured
• Qwen3.5-2B — ≈114.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 — ≈57.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 — ≈57.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 — ≈57.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-4-E2B-it — ≈44.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct — ≈42.0 tok/s Q4 measured

All models on the RTX 3060 12GB →