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Which AI models run on the RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)?
The RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB) has 16 GB of memory, about 15.0 GB of it usable for a model, and 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth. 51 of the 110 models in our catalog run on it at 4-bit or better.
Data as of 2 November 2026
Models that run on it
| Model | Best build | Memory | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano 9B v29B | Q8_0 | 10.8 GB | ~26 tok/s our est. |
| Qwen3.5 9B Instruct9B | Q8_0 | 12.0 GB | ~45 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~80 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 4B Instruct4B | Q8_0 | 5.0 GB | ~84 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~41 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Phi-3 Medium 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~22 tok/s our est. |
| Phi-4 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.8 GB | ~40 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~41 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~41 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~41 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 14B13.5B | Q4_K_M | 10.3 GB | ~42 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B Thinking12.1B MoE | Q4_K_M | 9.3 GB | ~147 tok/s our est. |
| Mistral Nemo 12B12B | Q8_0 | 13.4 GB | ~30 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 12B Instruct12B | Q4_K_M | 10.7 GB | ~48 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 12B12B | Q8_0 | 14.1 GB | ~30 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| GLM-4-9B-Chat9.4B | Q8_0 | 11.2 GB | ~41 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 2 9B Instruct9B | Q4_K_M | 8.2 GB | ~53 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ornith 1.0 9B9B | Q4_K_M | 6.7 GB | ~73 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B9B | Q4_K_M | 6.9 GB | ~71 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Jebadiah 9B9B | Q8_0 | 11.0 GB | ~44 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.2 8B8.8B | Q4_K_M | 6.1 GB | ~65 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite Switch 4.1 8B8.8B | Q4_K_M | 7.6 GB | ~53 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| MiniCPM-V 4.5 8B8.7B | Q4_K_M | 6.8 GB | ~70 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 8B8.4B | Q4_K_M | 7.1 GB | ~60 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B8.3B MoE | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~185 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8B | Q8_0 | 9.2 GB | ~45 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3 8B8B | Q8_0 | 9.3 GB | ~44 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.1 8B Instruct8B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~62 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Mistral 7B Instruct7B | Q8_0 | 8.4 GB | ~47 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B7B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~80 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 7B7B | Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | ~49 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 E4B4.5B | Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | ~73 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 4B Instruct4B | Q8_0 | 5.4 GB | ~79 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B4B | Q4_K_M | 9.1 GB | ~92 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Phi-3 Mini 3.8B3.8B | Q4_K_M | 4.3 GB | ~77 tok/s our est. |
| Phi-4 Mini 3.8B3.8B | Q8_0 | 4.9 GB | ~79 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.2 3B3.7B | Q4_K_M | 3.2 GB | ~137 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 3B3.4B | Q4_K_M | 4.1 GB | ~104 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.6 GB | ~155 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.6 GB | ~134 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.1 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.0 GB | ~137 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 E2B2.3B | Q8_0 | 5.7 GB | ~155 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 2 2B Instruct2B | Q4_K_M | 2.8 GB | ~151 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 2B Instruct2B | Q4_K_M | 2.8 GB | ~157 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| LFM3 1.7B1.73B | Q4_K_M | 2.1 GB | ~240 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct1.5B | Q4_K_M | 2.5 GB | ~246 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1B | Q4_K_M | 2.0 GB | ~272 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 1B Instruct1B | Q8_0 | 2.0 GB | ~248 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Instruct0.8B | Q4_K_M | 1.8 GB | ~288 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct0.5B | Q4_K_M | 1.8 GB | ~407 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| SmolLM2 360M0.36B | Q4_K_M | 1.5 GB | ~281 tok/s ModelFit est. |
Speeds come from ModelFit's estimates (CC BY 4.0) where it covers the model, otherwise from our bandwidth formula. Method
Fits only at 3-bit or lower
Too big for this machine
gpt-oss-20b (15.1 GB), LFM2 24B-A2B Instruct (15.3 GB), Mistral Small 3.1 (16.4 GB), Devstral Small 2 24B (16.6 GB), Gemma 4 26B-A4B (17.4 GB), Qwen3.5 27B Instruct (17.4 GB), Qwen3.8-27B (17.9 GB), Granite 4.2 30B (17.9 GB), Jebadiah 27B (18.2 GB), Muse Glimmer 30B (18.3 GB), Mistral Small 22B (18.4 GB), AREX-2 27B (18.6 GB) and more.
Questions
What is the best AI model for the RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)?
Qwen3.5 9B Instruct at Q8_0: the largest model on our shortlist of current models that runs at 4-bit or better at a usable speed (about 45 tok/s, ModelFit est.).
How much memory can a model use on the RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)?
About 15.0 GB of the 16 GB.
How fast is the RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB) for local LLMs?
Decode speed is limited by memory bandwidth: 448 GB/s. A model that reads 10 GB per token runs at under 45 tokens per second.