Can the RTX 3060 Ti Run Gemma 3 12B?
Tight fit
Yes, but only just. Gemma 3 12B at Q4_K_M is a 7.3 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for unsloth/gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF), and the RTX 3060 Ti's 8 GB leaves about 0.7 GB, enough for the runtime and a short context window; long-context sessions will spill into system RAM. No published speed measurement for this pair passes SpecPicks' sanity checks yet, so no tokens-per-second figure is quoted.
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Published runs for Gemma 3 12B on the RTX 3060 Ti
No published run for this pair has passed the checks yet.
More about this pair
How much VRAM does Gemma 3 12B need?
The Q4_K_M file is 7.3 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 8.8 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.
What speed does Gemma 3 12B reach on the RTX 3060 Ti?
No published run of Gemma 3 12B on the RTX 3060 Ti has been cited yet. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the RTX 3060 Ti's 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 7.3 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 61 tokens per second. That is an upper bound, not a speed estimate: kernel, launch and compute overhead keep real runs below it.
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Gemma 3 12B on other GPUs
- RTX 4060 — Tight fit
- RTX 3060 12GB — Runs
- Intel Arc B580 — Runs
- RTX 4070 SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- Intel Arc A770 16GB — Runs
- Radeon RX 9070 XT — Runs
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4080 — Runs
- RTX 5070 Ti — Runs
- RTX 5080 — Runs
- Tesla P40 24GB — Runs
- RTX 3090 — Runs
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX — Runs
- RTX 4090 — Runs
- RTX 5090 — Runs
- RTX A6000 48GB — Runs
- RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB — Runs
- Instinct MI210 64GB — Runs
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB — Runs
Other models on the RTX 3060 Ti
- Llama 3.2 1B — Runs
- Llama 3.2 3B — Runs
- Mistral 7B — Runs, 71.2 tok/s (1 run)
- Qwen2.5 7B — Runs, 58.1 tok/s (1 run)
- Llama 3.1 8B — Runs, 57.3 tok/s (1 run)
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B — Runs
- Qwen3 8B — Runs
- Gemma 2 9B — Runs, 23.8 tok/s (1 run)
- Qwen2.5 14B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B — Offload
- Qwen3 14B — Offload
- Phi-4 14B — Offload
- gpt-oss-20b — Offload
- Gemma 3 27B — Offload
- Gemma 2 27B — Offload
- Qwen3 30B-A3B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- Gemma 3 27B (Q8_0) — Offload
- Llama 3.1 70B — Offload
- Llama 3.3 70B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B — Offload
How the checks work
The fit is the Q4_K_M file size against the card's VRAM, with 1.5 GB kept for the runtime and an ~8K context. A published run counts only if the pair fits, the run is Q4-class, its source does not call it an estimate, it is under the bandwidth ceiling (memory bandwidth ÷ GB read per token: the whole file for a dense model, only the active experts' weights for a mixture-of-experts model such as gpt-oss-20b or Qwen3 30B-A3B, which is why those can post figures above bandwidth ÷ file size), it is not slower than the same card on a model twice its size, a single run is not slower than the same card on a larger dense model, and it is not one figure pasted across many cards. The whole matrix is downloadable as a CSV under CC BY 4.0.
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