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Which AI models run on the Tesla T4 (16 GB)?
The Tesla T4 (16 GB) has 16 GB of memory, about 15.0 GB of it usable for a model, and 320 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 | ~18 tok/s our est. |
| Qwen3.5 9B Instruct9B | Q8_0 | 12.0 GB | ~24 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~44 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 4B Instruct4B | Q8_0 | 5.0 GB | ~46 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Phi-3 Medium 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~16 tok/s our est. |
| Phi-4 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.8 GB | ~21 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B14B | Q4_K_M | 12.3 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 14B13.5B | Q4_K_M | 10.3 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B Thinking12.1B MoE | Q4_K_M | 9.3 GB | ~105 tok/s our est. |
| Mistral Nemo 12B12B | Q8_0 | 13.4 GB | ~16 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 12B Instruct12B | Q4_K_M | 10.7 GB | ~26 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 12B12B | Q8_0 | 14.1 GB | ~16 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| GLM-4-9B-Chat9.4B | Q8_0 | 11.2 GB | ~22 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 2 9B Instruct9B | Q4_K_M | 8.2 GB | ~28 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ornith 1.0 9B9B | Q4_K_M | 6.7 GB | ~40 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B9B | Q4_K_M | 6.9 GB | ~38 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Jebadiah 9B9B | Q8_0 | 11.0 GB | ~24 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.2 8B8.8B | Q4_K_M | 6.1 GB | ~35 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite Switch 4.1 8B8.8B | Q4_K_M | 7.6 GB | ~29 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| MiniCPM-V 4.5 8B8.7B | Q4_K_M | 6.8 GB | ~38 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 8B8.4B | Q4_K_M | 7.1 GB | ~33 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B8.3B MoE | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~110 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8B | Q8_0 | 9.2 GB | ~24 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3 8B8B | Q8_0 | 9.3 GB | ~23 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.1 8B Instruct8B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~34 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Mistral 7B Instruct7B | Q8_0 | 8.4 GB | ~25 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B7B | Q4_K_M | 6.6 GB | ~44 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 7B7B | Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | ~26 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 E4B4.5B | Q8_0 | 8.7 GB | ~40 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 4B Instruct4B | Q8_0 | 5.4 GB | ~43 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B4B | Q4_K_M | 9.1 GB | ~51 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Phi-3 Mini 3.8B3.8B | Q4_K_M | 4.3 GB | ~55 tok/s our est. |
| Phi-4 Mini 3.8B3.8B | Q8_0 | 4.9 GB | ~43 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.2 3B3.7B | Q4_K_M | 3.2 GB | ~78 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Ministral 3 3B3.4B | Q4_K_M | 4.1 GB | ~58 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.6 GB | ~90 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.6 GB | ~76 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Granite 4.1 3B Instruct3B | Q4_K_M | 3.0 GB | ~78 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 4 E2B2.3B | Q8_0 | 5.7 GB | ~90 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 2 2B Instruct2B | Q4_K_M | 2.8 GB | ~87 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 2B Instruct2B | Q4_K_M | 2.8 GB | ~91 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| LFM3 1.7B1.73B | Q4_K_M | 2.1 GB | ~148 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct1.5B | Q4_K_M | 2.5 GB | ~153 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1B | Q4_K_M | 2.0 GB | ~174 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Gemma 3 1B Instruct1B | Q8_0 | 2.0 GB | ~154 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Instruct0.8B | Q4_K_M | 1.8 GB | ~186 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct0.5B | Q4_K_M | 1.8 GB | ~293 tok/s ModelFit est. |
| SmolLM2 360M0.36B | Q4_K_M | 1.5 GB | ~181 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 Tesla T4 (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 24 tok/s, ModelFit est.).
How much memory can a model use on the Tesla T4 (16 GB)?
About 15.0 GB of the 16 GB.
How fast is the Tesla T4 (16 GB) for local LLMs?
Decode speed is limited by memory bandwidth: 320 GB/s. A model that reads 10 GB per token runs at under 32 tokens per second.