Best LLMs for 16 GB VRAM

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2026年9月11日

These are the strongest local models that fit entirely in 16 GB of VRAM, ranked by capability, with the quantization level and estimated tokens/sec needed to fit.

GPUs at This Tier

Ranked Models

Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~51 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 14B	Q4_K_M · 8.935500000000001 GB · ~49 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Codestral — Codestral 22B	Q4_K_M · 13.40325 GB · ~34 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B	Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~52 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Phi-4 Family — Phi-4 (14B)	Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~51 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Mistral Small 3.1 — Mistral Small 3.1 24B	Q4_K_M · 14.248500000000002 GB · ~33 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
InternLM 3 — InternLM 3 20B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 12.075 GB · ~38 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Mistral Family — Mistral Small 3 (24B)	Q4_K_M · 14.49 GB
Granite 3.0 — Granite 3.0 8B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~80 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Bonsai 27B — Ternary Bonsai 27B	Ternary (1.58-bit, ~1.71 bpw) · 5.77125 GB · ~68 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~89 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.950749999999999 GB · ~79 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~81 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Mistral Family — Mistral NeMo 12B	Q4_K_M · 7.245 GB · ~59 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Devstral — Devstral Small 2 24B	Q4_K_M · 14.49 GB

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FAQ

What LLMs run well with 16 GB VRAM?

Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3, Codestral, DeepSeek R1, Phi-4 Family all fit in 16 GB VRAM.

Which GPUs have 16 GB VRAM?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

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