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RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, RTX 4080, RTX 5080, RX 9070 XT

Best LLMs for 16 GB of VRAM

139 open-weights models run on a GPU with 16 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of system RAM, 92 of them fully on the GPU. The strongest by benchmark score: Qwen 3.8 27B, Qwen3.6 27B, Gemma 4 31B IT.

Each row shows the best quantization that fits, where it runs and a speed estimate at a 16K context, assuming a card with about 500 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Bigger mixture-of-experts models can keep their experts in system RAM, which is why some run well above 16 GB. Other sizes: 6 GB · 8 GB · 12 GB · 24 GB · 32 GB.

Ranked by benchmarks

#ModelLabReleasedSizeECIBest quantRunstok/s
1Qwen 3.8 27BQwen2026-08-1428B152.6IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~27
2Qwen3.6 27BQwen2026-04-2128B146.7IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~27
3Gemma 4 31B ITGoogle2026-04-0231B144.3Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~6
4Qwen 3.6 35B-A3BQwen2026-04-1436B MoE144.0Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~42
5Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen2026-02-2436B MoE144.0Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~42
6Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle2026-04-0226B MoE141.6Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~25
7gpt-oss-120bOpenAI2025-08-05117B MoE140.2IQ2_MGPU + experts in RAM~30
8Qwen3.5-9BQwen2026-02-249.7B139.3Q6_Kfully on GPU~37
9Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025)Qwen2025-07-3030B MoE138.3Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~30
10Qwen3-32BQwen2025-04-2933B136.9IQ3_XXSsplit GPU / CPU~9
11QwQ-32BQwen2025-03-0532B136.5Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~5
12Qwen3-14BQwen2025-04-2915B136.1Q5_K_Mfully on GPU~28
13Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025)Qwen2025-07-2930B MoE135.2Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~30
14gpt-oss-20bOpenAI2025-08-0521B MoE135.0Q4_K_Mfully on GPU~100
15Qwen3-30B-A3BQwen2025-04-2931B MoE134.1Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~34
16Qwen3-8BQwen2025-04-288.2B132.1Q6_Kfully on GPU~43
17Phi-4Microsoft2024-12-1215B129.0Q5_K_Mfully on GPU~28
18Gemma 3 27BGoogle2025-03-1227B127.5IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~28
19Qwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen2024-09-1832B118.9Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~5
20Gemma 2 27BGoogle2024-06-2427B118.6Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~5
21phi-3-small 7.4BMicrosoft2024-04-237.4B116.5Q6_Kfully on GPU~47
22phi-3-medium 14BMicrosoft2024-04-2314B114.3Q6_Kfully on GPU~25
23Mistral NeMoMistral2024-07-1812B113.9Q6_Kfully on GPU~29
24Gemma 2 9BGoogle2024-06-249.2B112.7Q6_Kfully on GPU~38
25Llama 3.1-8BMeta2024-07-238B111.1Q6_Kfully on GPU~44
26phi-3-mini 3.8BMicrosoft2024-04-233.8B110.6Q6_Kfully on GPU~88
27Llama 3-8BMeta2024-04-188B109.4Q6_Kfully on GPU~44
28Gemma 7BGoogle2024-02-217B103.3Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
29Mistral 7B v0.1Mistral2023-09-277B102.8Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
30Qwen-14BQwen2023-09-2414B101.9Q6_Kfully on GPU~25
31Falcon 2 11BTII2024-05-0911B99.3Q6_Kfully on GPU~32
32Llama 2-13BMeta2023-07-1813B96.7Q6_Kfully on GPU~27
33LLaMA-33BMeta2023-02-2433B96.6IQ3_XXSsplit GPU / CPU~11
34StarCoder 2 15BHugging Face2024-02-2015B96.3Q5_K_Mfully on GPU~27
35Yi 6B01.AI2023-11-226B94.4Q6_Kfully on GPU~57
36Baichuan2-13BBaichuan2023-09-0613B92.0Q6_Kfully on GPU~27
37Falcon-40BTII2023-05-2540B90.9IQ3_XXSsplit GPU / CPU~5
38Qwen-7BQwen2023-09-287B89.2Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
39MPT-30BMosaicML2023-06-2230B85.5IQ4_XSsplit GPU / CPU~5
40LLaMA-13BMeta2023-02-2413B85.4Q6_Kfully on GPU~27
41Baichuan 2-7BBaichuan2023-09-207B83.8Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
42Llama 2-7BMeta2023-07-187B83.4Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
43LLaMA-7BMeta2023-02-247B77.5Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
44DeepSeek Coder 33BDeepSeek2023-11-0233B76.6IQ3_XXSsplit GPU / CPU~11
45Gemma 2BGoogle2024-02-212B76.0Q6_Kfully on GPU~150
46MPT-7BMosaicML2023-05-057B73.7Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
47Falcon-7BTII2023-04-247B73.4Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
48StarCoder 2 7BHugging Face2024-02-207B72.7Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
49XGen-7BSalesforce2023-06-277B70.6Q6_Kfully on GPU~50
50DeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek2023-11-026.7B67.8Q6_Kfully on GPU~52
51StarCoder 2 3BHugging Face2024-02-223B66.9Q6_Kfully on GPU~110
52Dolly 2.0-12bDatabricks2023-04-1112B55.8Q6_Kfully on GPU~30
53Cerebras-GPT-13BCerebras2023-03-2013B49.3Q6_Kfully on GPU~27

Newer models without benchmark results yet

ModelLabReleasedSizeECIBest quantRunstok/s
KLM 1.6MinimaLabs2026-11-090.1B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~790
Cola2ByteDance2026-11-068.8B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~40
S5 nanoMaritaca-ai2026-11-024.7B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~73
Raon 1 nanoKRAFTON2026-10-293.5B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~94
SenseNova Loop 9B PreviewSenseNova2026-10-289.7B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~36
LBS 27BinclusionAI2026-10-2627B–Q3_K_Mfully on GPU~22
WeVisOne VL 4BTencent2026-10-224.8B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~70
WeVisOne VL 2BTencent2026-10-222.4B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~130
flintRecursiveSI2026-10-2140B MoE–Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~64
Ling 3.0 flash SanteinclusionAI2026-10-19127B MoE–IQ2_XXSGPU + experts in RAM~44
Axion 1.0 35BAxion1-02026-10-1635B MoE–Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~34
NVIDIA Nemotron Labs Dory1.0 4B BF16NVIDIA2026-10-164B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~84
NVIDIA Nemotron Labs Dory1.0 4B MXFP8NVIDIA2026-10-164B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~84
Hy Memory 30B A3BTencent2026-10-1530B MoE–Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~24
granite switch 4.1 8bIBM2026-10-148.8B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~40
granite switch 4.1 30bIBM2026-10-1430B–Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~5
Youtu Parsing OmniTencent2026-10-095.3B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~64
MiniCPM5 2BOpenbmb2026-09-062.5B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~130
tiny aya en thinkerCohere2026-09-023.4B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~98
tiny aya l2 thinkerCohere2026-09-023.4B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~98
Qwen3.8 Flash NextQwen2026-08-24125B MoE–Stratavia Strata~62
Muse GlimmerMeta2026-08-1030B–IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~26
Ling 3.0 tinyinclusionAI2026-08-107.9B MoE–Q6_Kfully on GPU~210
North Micro Vision InstructCohere2026-08-102.5B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~130
Muse Glimmer 30B assistantMeta2026-08-0930B–IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~25
Mage VLMicrosoft2026-07-254.7B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~72
Gemma 4 E4BGoogle2026-07-028B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~44
Gemma 4 E2BGoogle2026-07-025.1B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~67
DiffusionGemma 26B-A4BDeepMind2026-06-1026B MoE–IQ4_XSfully on GPU~120
Gemma 4 12BGoogle2026-06-0312B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~30
Granite 4.1 30BIBM2026-04-2929B–Q3_K_Msplit GPU / CPU~6
Granite 4.1 8BIBM2026-04-298.8B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~40
Qwen3.5-4BQwen2026-02-244.7B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~73
Qwen3.5-2BQwen2026-02-242.3B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~140
Qwen3.5-0.8BQwen2026-02-240.9B–Q6_Kfully on GPU~300
Qwen3.5 27BQwen2026-02-2328B–IQ3_XXSfully on GPU~27
Qwen3.5 122B-A10BQwen2026-02-23125B MoE–IQ2_XXSGPU + experts in RAM~39
Qwen3-Coder-NextQwen2026-02-0280B MoE–Q3_K_MGPU + experts in RAM~42
GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai2026-01-1931B MoE–Q6_KGPU + experts in RAM~25
Solar Open 100BUpstage2025-12-31103B MoE–IQ2_MGPU + experts in RAM~17