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RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for Local LLMs

Both list the same memory bandwidth (448 GB/s), so per-token decode speed should be similar whenever a model fits both. The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 25 vs 17 of 61 models (16 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB but not the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB: gpt-oss-20b (21.5B). MSRP is $429 for the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs $379 for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB. 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 (38 shared models), the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 16 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

RTX 5060 Ti 16GBRTX 5060 Ti 8GB
VendorNVIDIANVIDIA
VRAM16 GB8 GB
Memory typeGDDR7GDDR7
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s448 GB/s
TDP180 W180 W
MSRP (list)$429$379
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)RTX 5060 Ti 16GB tok/sRTX 5060 Ti 16GB fitsRTX 5060 Ti 8GB tok/sRTX 5060 Ti 8GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8356.4 est.Yes356.4 est.YesTie
gemma-3-1b-it1.0285.1 est.Yes285.1 est.YesTie
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2237.6 est.Yes237.6 est.YesTie
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5205.8 est.No51.4 est.NoRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5205.8 est.No51.4 est.NoRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5205.8 est.No51.4 est.NoRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2197.5 est.No49.4 est.NoRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0142.5 est.Yes142.5 est.YesTie
gpt-oss-20b21.5111.5 measuredYes78.9 est.NoRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.37.291.1 measuredYes39.6 est.YesRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.289.1 est.Yes89.1 est.YesTie
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.875.0 est.Yes75.0 est.YesTie
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.875.0 est.Yes75.0 est.YesTie
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct8.074.7 measuredYes35.6 est.YesRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.373.1 est.Yes73.1 est.YesTie

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 5060 Ti 16GBRTX 5060 Ti 8GB
Catalog models that fit25 of 6117 of 61
Largest exclusive fitgpt-oss-20b (21.5B)—

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