Can I Run Llama 3.2 Family on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 15 sierpnia 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~1.6 GB of headroom running Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M (6.39975 GB, ~36 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 4K context.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Specs

VRAM8 GB
Memory Bandwidth448 GB/s

Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 8 GB?Max context
F1622.7 GB✗ No
Q8_012.7 GB✗ No
Q6_K10.2 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M9 GB✗ No
Q4_K_M7.9 GB✓ Yes4K
Q3_K_M6 GB✓ Yes8K
Q2_K5 GB✓ Yes16K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 8 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Llama 3.2 Family Sizes That Fit the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructQ4_K_M · 6.39975 GB · ~36 tok/s (est.)
Llama 3.2 3B InstructQ4_K_M · 1.9380375 GB · ~92 tok/s (est.)
Llama 3.2 1B InstructQ4_K_M · 0.74865 GB · ~185 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Can I run Llama 3.2 Family on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~1.6 GB of headroom running Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M (6.39975 GB, ~36 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 4K context.

What's the best Llama 3.2 Family size for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (6.39975 GB), estimated ~36 tokens/sec, up to 4K context.

Every Llama 3.2 Family size on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct53.6 GBDoes not fit
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct6.4 GBRuns~36 tok/s
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct1.9 GBRuns~92 tok/s
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct0.7 GBRuns~185 tok/s

Llama 3.2 Family on Other GPUs

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