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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

16 GB decides what fits. 288 GB/s decides how fast it runs once it does.

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Quick answer
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB fits 153 of 320 sized models entirely in its 16 GB; the largest widely used one is gpt-oss-20b (13.8 GB at Q4_K_M). Memory decides what fits; its 288 GB/s of bandwidth decides how fast it answers.

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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · 16 GB · 288 GB/s · Q4_K_M where published · 8,192 tokensSpecificationreconstructed size. Memory bandwidth computed from published figures rather than read from one: 128-bit x 18 Gbps / 8 = 288 GB/s. Width and memory type from NVIDIA (GeForce RTX 4060 Family specifications: RTX 4060 Ti standard memory config "16 GB or 8 GB GDDR6", memory interface width "128-bit".); data rate from the board partner's specification for the shipping card (ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB tech specs: "16GB GDDR6", "Memory Speed 18 Gbps", "Memory Interface 128-bit".).Decode speedestimate

153 of 320 fit entirely

153 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. 73 run with some layers on system memory (32 GB assumed), and 94 do not run at all.

48%of the models the engine can size fit entirely
16GB of device memory
288GB/s memory bandwidth
73run with system memory
94do not run at 8,192 tokens

Featured models · Q4_K_M at 8,192 tokens, including offload

ModelNeedsVerdictDecodeCalculator
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B parameters2.32 GBfits~159 tok/sOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.0B parameters3.46 GBfits~74 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct8.8B parameters7.04 GBfits~33 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.5-9B9.7B parameters7.05 GBfits~40 tok/sOpen →
gemma-4-12B-it12B parameters9.54 GBfits~24 tok/sAbout reading paceOpen →
gpt-oss-20b21B parameters13.8 GBfits~78 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.8-27B28B parameters18.6 GB10 of 64 layers on system RAM (2.66 GB)~9.9 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Qwen3.6-27B28B parameters18.6 GB10 of 64 layers on system RAM (2.66 GB)~9.9 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct49B parameters30.4 GB14 of 27 layers on system RAM (15.3 GB)~50 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next180B parameters111.6 GBneeds 96.7 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp305B parameters188.1 GBneeds 174.2 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
GLM-5.3-Flash321B parameters198.3 GBneeds 184.1 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →

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 4060 Ti 16GB memory — 153 of 320 sized models

Every model that fitswhole model resident · offload off

The most demanding model that fits is gpt-neox-20b at Q4_K_M: 15.7 GB of the 16 GB, leaving 0.25 GB spare.

Fully resident at 8,192 tokens (or the model’s own maximum, where that is shorter), offload off, at 288 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 153 models that fit.

ModelFormatNeedsSpareDecodeDownloads / 30dCalculator
Qwen3.5-9BQwen · 9.7B paramsQ4_K_M7.05 GB8.95 GB~40 tok/s9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-4BQwen · 4.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.98 GB12.0 GB~73 tok/s7.8MOpen →
gemma-4-12B-itGoogle · 12B paramsQ4_K_M9.54 GB6.46 GB~24 tok/sAbout reading pace1.9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-2BQwen · 2.3B paramsQ4_K_M2.32 GB13.7 GB~159 tok/s4.9MOpen →
gemma-4-E4B-itGoogle · 8.0B paramsQ4_K_M5.86 GB10.1 GB~65 tok/s4.4MOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16NVIDIA · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M3.46 GB12.5 GB~74 tok/s3.4MOpen →
gemma-4-E2B-itGoogle · 5.1B paramsQ4_K_M4.02 GB12.0 GB~171 tok/s3MOpen →
Qwen3.5-0.8BQwen · 873M paramsQ4_K_M1.46 GB14.5 GB~348 tok/s2.6MOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructQwen · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.04 GB8.96 GB~33 tok/s14.6MOpen →
North-Micro-Vision-InstructCohereLabs · 2.5B paramsQ4_K_M2.99 GB13.0 GB~104 tok/s180.7KOpen →
granite-4.2-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB8.51 GB~30 tok/s128.4KOpen →
granite-4.1-3bIBM · 3.4B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB12.3 GB~71 tok/s521.8KOpen →
LFM2.5-2.6BLiquidAI · 2.7B paramsQ4_K_M2.61 GB13.4 GB~113 tok/s108.1KOpen →
Qwen3-VL-4B-InstructQwen · 4.4B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB11.3 GB~53 tok/s3.5MOpen →
Qwen3-VL-2B-InstructQwen · 2.1B paramsQ4_K_M3.05 GB13.0 GB~96 tok/s2.8MOpen →
granite-4.2-3bIBM · 3.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB12.3 GB~71 tok/s50.6KOpen →
LFM2.5-230MLiquidAI · 230M paramsQ4_K_M1.05 GB14.9 GB~790 tok/s88.6KOpen →
Qwen3-0.6BQwen · 752M paramsQ4_K_M2.22 GB13.8 GB~147 tok/s29.7MOpen →
gpt-oss-20bOpenAI · 21B paramsQ4_K_M13.8 GB2.24 GB~78 tok/s6.6MOpen →
granite-4.1-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB8.51 GB~30 tok/s179.3KOpen →
LFM2.5-VL-3BLiquidAI · 3.1B paramsQ4_K_M2.85 GB13.1 GB~113 tok/s26.7KOpen →
MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9BNEWXiaomiMiMo · 9.4B paramsQ4_K_M6.90 GB9.10 GB~40 tok/s14.6KOpen →
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507Qwen · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB11.3 GB~53 tok/s3.7MOpen →
Ling-3.0-tinyinclusionAI · 7.9B paramsQ4_K_M5.85 GB10.1 GB~228 tok/s17.7KOpen →
Qwen3-8BQwen · 8.2B paramsQ4_K_M7.04 GB8.96 GB~33 tok/s10.7MOpen →
Olmo-3-7B-Instructallenai · 7.3B paramsQ4_K_M7.96 GB8.04 GB~28 tok/sAbout reading pace481.7KOpen →
Qwen3-4BQwen · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M4.51 GB11.5 GB~53 tok/s7.8MOpen →
LFM2.5-8B-A1BLiquidAI · 8.5B paramsQ4_K_M6.06 GB9.94 GB~177 tok/s32.4KOpen →
LFM2.5-350MLiquidAI · 354M paramsQ4_K_M1.13 GB14.9 GB~510 tok/s69.9KOpen →
Hy-MT2-1.8BTencent · 2.0B paramsQ4_K_M2.47 GB13.5 GB~118 tok/s28.9KOpen →
LLaDA2.0-miniinclusionAI · 16B paramsQ4_K_M11.0 GB5.00 GB~183 tok/s217.2KOpen →
LFM2.5-1.2B-InstructLiquidAI · 1.2B paramsQ4_K_M1.63 GB14.4 GB~188 tok/s119.2KOpen →
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512Mistral AI · 14B paramsQ4_K_M10.4 GB5.62 GB~21 tok/sAbout reading pace251KOpen →
Qwen3-1.7BQwen · 2.0B paramsQ4_K_M3.02 GB13.0 GB~96 tok/s3.1MOpen →
Nemotron-3.5-Content-SafetyNVIDIA · 4.3B paramsQ4_K_M3.73 GB12.3 GB~71 tok/s14.1KOpen →
Hy-MT2-7BTencent · 8.0B paramsQ4_K_M6.50 GB9.50 GB~34 tok/s15.4KOpen →
Qwen3-14BQwen · 15B paramsQ4_K_M11.1 GB4.86 GB~20 tok/sAbout reading pace2.7MOpen →
GLM-4.6V-Flashzai-org · 10B paramsQ4_K_M7.45 GB8.55 GB~34 tok/s103.7KOpen →
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-InstructQwen · 8.3B paramsQ4_K_M6.36 GB9.64 GB~40 tok/s5.8MOpen →
SmolLM3-3BHuggingFaceTB · 3.1B paramsQ4_K_M3.46 GB12.5 GB~78 tok/s617KOpen →

Sized at the format most people actually download, not at FP16. The catalogue ordered by downloads →

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What the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs on Vast.ai and RunPod right now, per machine, from one card to eight. Every price is read from the provider's own API.

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1× RTX 4060 Ti 16GB · 16 GB

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Under the hood

The specification behind every figure

What the manufacturer publishes for this device, and the pages it was read from.

Manufacturer specification

Memory scopededicated
Capacity16 GB
Published options16 GB
Bandwidth288 GB/s
Memory typeGDDR6
Bus width128-bit
FP32 peakNot published
Dense matrix peakNot published without sparsity
PowerNot published

Source ledger

Caveats

  • NVIDIA publishes this card's memory type and interface width but not its bandwidth. The figure here is the arithmetic on those two published values, with the data rate taken from the board partner's specification for the shipping card, and it is labelled derived rather than verified for that reason.
  • No peak throughput figure is published for this card in a form this catalogue accepts, so no compute roof is priced for it and time to first token is withheld rather than estimated.

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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