Laptop
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
- 256 GB/s
- Memory upgradeable
- Yes
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace AD107
- Form factor
- Laptop
- Operating system
- Windows or Linux
- Released
- 2023
- Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M
- 28–53 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 FamilyYes, but it is tight
- VibeThinkerYes — comfortably
- Aya 3B (Tiny Aya)Yes — comfortably
- StarCoder 2Yes
- SmolLM3Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM2Yes — comfortably
- Qwen3-CoderPartially — with offload
- Qwen 3Yes, but it is tight
- Qwen 3.5Yes, but it is tight
- Qwen 2.5 VLYes
- Qwen 2.5 FamilyYes, but it is tight
- Phi-4 MiniYes — comfortably
- Phi-4 FamilyYes
- Phi 3.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- OLMo 2Yes, but it is tight
- Mistral FamilyYes, but it is tight
- MinistralYes, but it is tight
- Ministral 3Yes, but it is tight
- MiniCPM-VYes, but it is tight
- Llama 3.2 VisionYes
- Llama 3.2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.1 FamilyYes, but it is tight
- LFM2.5Yes, but it is tight
- InternLM 3Yes, but it is tight
- IBM Granite 4.2Yes, but it is tight
- IBM Granite 4.1Yes, but it is tight
- Granite 3.0Yes, but it is tight
- GLM-5 / GLM-5.1No
- GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1Yes, but it is tight
- Gemma 4Yes, but it is tight
- Gemma 3nYes, but it is tight
- Gemma 3Yes — comfortably
- Gemma 2 FamilyYes
- Falcon 3Yes, but it is tight
- EXAONE 3.5Yes, but it is tight
- DeepSeek R1Yes, but it is tight
- DeepSeek-OCRYes — comfortably
- Cosmos 3Yes — comfortably
- Cogito v1Yes, but it is tight
- BitNet b1.58Yes — comfortably
- Aya ExpanseYes, but it is tight