RTX 4060 8GB vs Titan V 12GB for Local LLMs

The Titan V 12GB has about 140% more memory bandwidth (652.8 vs 272 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 140% faster on the Titan V 12GB. The Titan V 12GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 18 vs 16 of 69 models (12 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Titan V 12GB but not the RTX 4060 8GB: OLMo-2-1124-13B-Instruct (13.7B). MSRP is $299 for the RTX 4060 8GB vs $2,999 for the Titan V 12GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (39 shared models), the Titan V 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX 4060 8GB	Titan V 12GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	8 GB	12 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Memory bandwidth	272 GB/s	652.8 GB/s
TDP	115 W	250 W
MSRP (list)	$299	$2,999
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 39 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX 4060 8GB tok/s	RTX 4060 8GB fits	Titan V 12GB tok/s	Titan V 12GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	160.3 est.	Yes	384.6 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	47.6 est.	No	257.5 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	86.5 est.	Yes	207.7 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	34.1 est.	No	184.6 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	33.9 est.	No	183.6 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	75.3 est.	Yes	180.6 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	31.0 est.	No	167.9 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	29.8 est.	No	161.2 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	25.8 est.	No	139.6 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	24.5 est.	No	132.5 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	24.1 est.	No	130.5 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	24.0 est.	No	130.1 est.	No	Titan V 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	54.1 est.	Yes	129.8 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	43.3 est.	Yes	103.9 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16	4.0	43.3 est.	Yes	103.9 est.	Yes	Titan V 12GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	RTX 4060 8GB	Titan V 12GB
Catalog models that fit	16 of 69	18 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	—	OLMo-2-1124-13B-Instruct (13.7B)

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