NVIDIA
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Practical deployment guidance for this machine, using conservative fit estimates instead of marketing-style claims.
- Memory
- 16 GB VRAM
- System RAM
- 32 GB
- Bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- Preferred backend
- Ollama
Hardware notes
- Comfortable for 8B models and many 14B Q4 deployments.
- Bandwidth limits still matter for bigger reasoning models.
Comfortable fits
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
comfortableQ4 at 8k context is estimated at 6.69 GB total and 30-52 tok/s.
Phi-4
comfortableQ4 at 8k context is estimated at 10.92 GB total and 17-30 tok/s.
Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct
comfortableQ4 at 8k context is estimated at 11.33 GB total and 16-28 tok/s.
Borderline fits
This machine either fits the small set comfortably or falls straight into no-fit territory.
Backend support
These are the runtimes currently associated with this hardware profile.
Ollamallama.cppLM StudioExLlamavLLM
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The calculator lets you change context length, runtime, quantization, and concurrency instead of relying on a fixed profile.