RTX 4060 Laptop (8 GB VRAM, 16 GB RAM) — Local LLM Performance

RTX 4060 Laptop (8 GB VRAM, 16 GB RAM) is a Laptop running Windows or Linux, with 8 GB VRAM + 16 GB system RAM.

Specifications

Memory for models	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	272 GB/s
Memory upgradeable	Yes
Chip	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Architecture	Ada Lovelace AD107
Form factor	Laptop
Operating system	Windows or Linux
Released	2023
Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M	29–56 tok/s
Price	$1,099 (checked 2026-07-06)

Worth knowing before you buy

• 8 GB VRAM limits you to 7–8B models at Q4 with a short context.
• System RAM is usually upgradeable on this class of laptop even though VRAM is not.

Models on the RTX 4060 laptop

• Yi 1.5 Family — Yes, but it is tight
• VibeThinker — Yes — comfortably
• Aya 3B (Tiny Aya) — Yes — comfortably
• StarCoder 2 — Yes
• SmolLM3 — Yes — comfortably
• SmolLM2 — Yes — comfortably
• Qwen3-Coder — Yes, but it is tight
• Qwen 3 — Yes, but it is tight
• Qwen 3.5 — Yes, but it is tight
• Qwen 2.5 VL — Yes
• Qwen 2.5 Family — Yes, but it is tight
• Phi-4 Mini — Yes — comfortably
• Phi-4 Family — Yes
• Phi 3.5 Family — Yes — comfortably
• OLMo 2 — Yes, but it is tight
• Mistral Family — Yes, but it is tight
• Ministral — Yes, but it is tight
• Ministral 3 — Yes, but it is tight
• Llama 3.2 Vision — Yes
• Llama 3.2 Family — Yes — comfortably
• Llama 3.1 Family — Yes, but it is tight
• InternLM 3 — Yes, but it is tight
• IBM Granite 4.1 — Yes, but it is tight
• Granite 3.0 — Yes, but it is tight
• GLM-6 — Yes, but it is tight
• GLM-5 / GLM-5.1 — Yes, but it is tight
• GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1 — Yes, but it is tight
• Gemma 4 — Yes, but it is tight
• Gemma 3n — Yes, but it is tight
• Gemma 3 — Yes
• Gemma 2 Family — Yes, but it is tight
• Falcon 3 — Yes, but it is tight
• EXAONE 3.5 — Yes, but it is tight
• DeepSeek R1 — Yes, but it is tight
• Cosmos 3 — Yes — comfortably
• Cogito v1 — Yes, but it is tight
• BitNet b1.58 — Yes — comfortably
• Aya Expanse — Yes, but it is tight

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