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Can the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Run Phi-4 14B?

Runs

Yes. Phi-4 14B at Q4_K_M is a 9.1 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/phi-4-GGUF), and the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 16 GB of VRAM, leaving about 7 GB for the KV cache and runtime. No published speed measurement for this pair passes SpecPicks' sanity checks yet, so no tokens-per-second figure is quoted.

Model file9.1 GBQ4_K_M
VRAM16 GBRTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Headroom7 GBafter weights
Median speed—0 cited runs
Bandwidth ceiling~50 tok/s448 GB/s ÷ 9.05 GB

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Published runs for Phi-4 14B on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

No published run for this pair has passed the checks yet.

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How much VRAM does Phi-4 14B need?

The Q4_K_M file is 9.1 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 10.6 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.

What speed does Phi-4 14B reach on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?

No published run of Phi-4 14B on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has been cited yet. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB's 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 9.05 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 50 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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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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