NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
12 GB decides what fits. 336 GB/s decides how fast it runs once it does.
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- Largest popular model that fitsQwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct15B params · Q4_K_M · needs 11.4 GB~22 tok/s About reading paceOpen in the calculator →
- Best fast pickLLaDA2.0-mini16B params · Q4_K_M · needs 11.0 GB~213 tok/s Faster than you readOpen in the calculator →
- Most downloaded that fitsQwen3.5-9B9.7B params · Q4_K_M · needs 7.05 GB~47 tok/s Faster than you readOpen in the calculator →
At 8,192 tokens of context with the whole model in device memory. Speeds are estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks run on this card.
147 of 320 fit entirely
147 of the 320 models the engine can size fit entirely in device memory at Q4_K_M where it is published, otherwise the nearest published format, and 8,192 tokens. 70 run with some layers on system memory (32 GB assumed), and 103 do not run at all.
Featured models · Q4_K_M at 8,192 tokens, including offload
| Model | Needs | Verdict | Decode | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-2B2.3B parameters | 2.32 GB | fits | ~185 tok/s | Open → |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.0B parameters | 3.46 GB | fits | ~86 tok/s | Open → |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct8.8B parameters | 7.04 GB | fits | ~39 tok/s | Open → |
| Qwen3.5-9B9.7B parameters | 7.05 GB | fits | ~47 tok/s | Open → |
| gemma-4-12B-it12B parameters | 9.54 GB | fits | ~28 tok/sAbout reading pace | Open → |
| gpt-oss-20b21B parameters | 13.8 GB | 4 of 24 layers on system RAM (2.13 GB) | ~64 tok/s with offload | Open → |
| Qwen3.8-27B28B parameters | 18.6 GB | 25 of 64 layers on system RAM (6.66 GB) | ~7.6 tok/s with offload | Open → |
| Qwen3.6-27B28B parameters | 18.6 GB | 25 of 64 layers on system RAM (6.66 GB) | ~7.6 tok/s with offload | Open → |
| Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct49B parameters | 30.4 GB | 17 of 27 layers on system RAM (18.5 GB) | ~46 tok/s with offload | Open → |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next180B parameters | 111.6 GB | needs 101.3 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumed | does not run | Open → |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp305B parameters | 188.1 GB | needs 178.5 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumed | does not run | Open → |
| GLM-5.3-Flash321B parameters | 198.3 GB | needs 188.5 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumed | does not run | Open → |
These examples are selected from prominent labs using the catalogue’s latest Hugging Face 30-day downloads and repository-creation freshness signal, with newer releases guaranteed a place. Offloaded rows assume 32 GB of system RAM, and a speed is only shown for a row that runs. Fitting in memory is not the same as loading: whether the runtime and version you have supports each architecture and format on this machine has not been tested here. Each “Open” link carries the same model, format, context and RAM into the calculator.
Fits entirely in NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB memory — 147 of 320 sized models
The most demanding model that fits is Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct at Q4_K_M: 11.4 GB of the 12 GB, leaving 0.60 GB spare.
Fully resident at 8,192 tokens (or the model’s own maximum, where that is shorter), offload off, at 336 GB/s. Each row is a run of the engine for this configuration; the rows start with current, prominent releases and “fits” is memory, not a tested runtime. Older or less prominent models remain available through this search and “Show all”.
Showing 40 of 147 models that fit.
| Model | Format | Needs | Spare | Decode | Downloads / 30d | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9BQwen · 9.7B params | Q4_K_M | 7.05 GB | 4.95 GB | ~47 tok/s | 9M | Open → |
| Qwen3.5-4BQwen · 4.7B params | Q4_K_M | 3.98 GB | 8.02 GB | ~85 tok/s | 7.8M | Open → |
| gemma-4-12B-itGoogle · 12B params | Q4_K_M | 9.54 GB | 2.46 GB | ~28 tok/sAbout reading pace | 1.9M | Open → |
| Qwen3.5-2BQwen · 2.3B params | Q4_K_M | 2.32 GB | 9.68 GB | ~185 tok/s | 4.9M | Open → |
| gemma-4-E4B-itGoogle · 8.0B params | Q4_K_M | 5.86 GB | 6.14 GB | ~76 tok/s | 4.4M | Open → |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16NVIDIA · 4.0B params | Q4_K_M | 3.46 GB | 8.54 GB | ~86 tok/s | 3.4M | Open → |
| gemma-4-E2B-itGoogle · 5.1B params | Q4_K_M | 4.02 GB | 7.98 GB | ~200 tok/s | 3M | Open → |
| Qwen3.5-0.8BQwen · 873M params | Q4_K_M | 1.46 GB | 10.5 GB | ~406 tok/s | 2.6M | Open → |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructQwen · 8.8B params | Q4_K_M | 7.04 GB | 4.96 GB | ~39 tok/s | 14.6M | Open → |
| North-Micro-Vision-InstructCohereLabs · 2.5B params | Q4_K_M | 2.99 GB | 9.01 GB | ~122 tok/s | 180.7K | Open → |
| granite-4.2-8bIBM · 8.8B params | Q4_K_M | 7.49 GB | 4.51 GB | ~35 tok/s | 128.4K | Open → |
| granite-4.1-3bIBM · 3.4B params | Q4_K_M | 3.72 GB | 8.28 GB | ~82 tok/s | 521.8K | Open → |
| LFM2.5-2.6BLiquidAI · 2.7B params | Q4_K_M | 2.61 GB | 9.39 GB | ~132 tok/s | 108.1K | Open → |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-InstructQwen · 4.4B params | Q4_K_M | 4.72 GB | 7.28 GB | ~62 tok/s | 3.5M | Open → |
| Qwen3-VL-2B-InstructQwen · 2.1B params | Q4_K_M | 3.05 GB | 8.95 GB | ~112 tok/s | 2.8M | Open → |
| granite-4.2-3bIBM · 3.7B params | Q4_K_M | 3.72 GB | 8.28 GB | ~82 tok/s | 50.6K | Open → |
| LFM2.5-230MLiquidAI · 230M params | Q4_K_M | 1.05 GB | 10.9 GB | ~922 tok/s | 88.6K | Open → |
| Qwen3-0.6BQwen · 752M params | Q4_K_M | 2.22 GB | 9.78 GB | ~172 tok/s | 29.7M | Open → |
| granite-4.1-8bIBM · 8.8B params | Q4_K_M | 7.49 GB | 4.51 GB | ~35 tok/s | 179.3K | Open → |
| LFM2.5-VL-3BLiquidAI · 3.1B params | Q4_K_M | 2.85 GB | 9.15 GB | ~132 tok/s | 26.7K | Open → |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9BNEWXiaomiMiMo · 9.4B params | Q4_K_M | 6.90 GB | 5.10 GB | ~47 tok/s | 14.6K | Open → |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507Qwen · 4.0B params | Q4_K_M | 4.72 GB | 7.28 GB | ~62 tok/s | 3.7M | Open → |
| Ling-3.0-tinyinclusionAI · 7.9B params | Q4_K_M | 5.85 GB | 6.15 GB | ~266 tok/s | 17.7K | Open → |
| Qwen3-8BQwen · 8.2B params | Q4_K_M | 7.04 GB | 4.96 GB | ~39 tok/s | 10.7M | Open → |
| Olmo-3-7B-Instructallenai · 7.3B params | Q4_K_M | 7.96 GB | 4.04 GB | ~33 tok/s | 481.7K | Open → |
| Qwen3-4BQwen · 4.0B params | Q4_K_M | 4.51 GB | 7.49 GB | ~62 tok/s | 7.8M | Open → |
| LFM2.5-8B-A1BLiquidAI · 8.5B params | Q4_K_M | 6.06 GB | 5.94 GB | ~206 tok/s | 32.4K | Open → |
| LFM2.5-350MLiquidAI · 354M params | Q4_K_M | 1.13 GB | 10.9 GB | ~595 tok/s | 69.9K | Open → |
| Hy-MT2-1.8BTencent · 2.0B params | Q4_K_M | 2.47 GB | 9.53 GB | ~137 tok/s | 28.9K | Open → |
| LLaDA2.0-miniinclusionAI · 16B params | Q4_K_M | 11.0 GB | 1.00 GB | ~213 tok/s | 217.2K | Open → |
| LFM2.5-1.2B-InstructLiquidAI · 1.2B params | Q4_K_M | 1.63 GB | 10.4 GB | ~220 tok/s | 119.2K | Open → |
| Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512Mistral AI · 14B params | Q4_K_M | 10.4 GB | 1.62 GB | ~25 tok/sAbout reading pace | 251K | Open → |
| Qwen3-1.7BQwen · 2.0B params | Q4_K_M | 3.02 GB | 8.98 GB | ~112 tok/s | 3.1M | Open → |
| Nemotron-3.5-Content-SafetyNVIDIA · 4.3B params | Q4_K_M | 3.73 GB | 8.27 GB | ~82 tok/s | 14.1K | Open → |
| Hy-MT2-7BTencent · 8.0B params | Q4_K_M | 6.50 GB | 5.50 GB | ~40 tok/s | 15.4K | Open → |
| Qwen3-14BQwen · 15B params | Q4_K_M | 11.1 GB | 0.86 GB | ~23 tok/sAbout reading pace | 2.7M | Open → |
| GLM-4.6V-Flashzai-org · 10B params | Q4_K_M | 7.45 GB | 4.55 GB | ~40 tok/s | 103.7K | Open → |
| Qwen2.5-VL-7B-InstructQwen · 8.3B params | Q4_K_M | 6.36 GB | 5.64 GB | ~47 tok/s | 5.8M | Open → |
| SmolLM3-3BHuggingFaceTB · 3.1B params | Q4_K_M | 3.46 GB | 8.54 GB | ~91 tok/s | 617K | Open → |
| Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512Mistral AI · 8.9B params | Q4_K_M | 7.14 GB | 4.86 GB | ~38 tok/s | 121.2K | Open → |
Sized at the format most people actually download, not at FP16. The catalogue ordered by downloads →
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The RTX 2060 12GB, model by model
One page per model: whether it fits this device, at which formats, and how fast.
- Qwen3-0.6B
- Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
- Qwen3-8B
- gemma-4-31B-it
- Qwen3.5-9B
- Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
- Qwen3.5-4B
- Qwen3-4B
- Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
- Qwen3.8-27B
All 70Fewer
- gpt-oss-20b
- Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
- GLM-5.3-Flash
- Qwen3.5-2B
- dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- gpt-oss-120b
- gemma-4-E4B-it
- Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
- Qwen3-32B
- Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
- DeepSeek-V3.2
- Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
- pythia-160m
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
- Qwen3-1.7B
- gemma-4-E2B-it
- OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT
- Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
- Qwen3-14B
- Qwen3.5-0.8B
- JiRackUltra_1b
- Qwen3.6-27B
- Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct
- Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
- Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct
- gemma-4-12B-it
- Qwen3.5-27B
- SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
- SmolLM2-135M
- GLM-4.7-Flash
- Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
- Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct
- Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
- Qwen3-30B-A3B
- Qwen2.5-0.5B
- Ornith-1.0-35B
- pythia-70m-deduped
- DeepSeek-V3-0324
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- GLM-5.3
- TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
- DeepSeek-V3
- Kimi-K3
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16
- MiniMax-M2.7
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash
- MiniCPM5-2B
- DeepSeek-R1
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
- Ornith-1.0-9B
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
- DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16
The specification behind every figure
What the manufacturer publishes for this device, and the pages it was read from.
Manufacturer specification
| Memory scope | dedicated |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 12 GB |
| Published options | 12 GB |
| Bandwidth | 336 GB/s |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Bus width | 192-bit |
| FP32 peak | Not published |
| Dense matrix peak | Not published without sparsity |
| Graphics Card Power | 185 W |
Source ledger
Caveats
- NVIDIA does not publish this card's memory bandwidth any more, so the figure comes from the TechPowerUp GPU Database (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2060-12-gb.c3836), a third-party source, and is labelled as an estimate rather than a published specification.
- No dense matrix throughput is published for this device in a form this catalogue accepts, so no compute roof is priced and time to first token is withheld.
Published capacity is a hardware ceiling, not guaranteed free runtime memory. The calculator shows the runtime reserve separately rather than folding it into a single number.
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