Best LLMs for 6 GB VRAM

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2026年7月15日

These are the strongest local models that fit entirely in 6 GB of VRAM, ranked by capability, with the quantization level and estimated tokens/sec needed to fit.

GPUs at This Tier

Ranked Models

Granite 3.0 — Granite 3.0 8B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~39 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~44 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.950749999999999 GB · ~39 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~40 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Bonsai 27B — 1-bit Bonsai 27B	1-bit (binary, ~1.125 bpw) · 3.796875 GB · ~46 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Llama 3.1 Family — Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~40 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
IBM Granite 4.1 — Granite 4.1 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~40 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
EXAONE 3.5 — EXAONE 3.5 7.8B	Q4_K_M · 4.70925 GB · ~41 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Ministral — Ministral 8B	Q4_K_M · 4.8420749999999995 GB · ~40 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Qwen 2.5 VL — Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 5.005087499999999 GB · ~41 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
StarCoder 2 — StarCoder 2 7B	Q4_K_M · 4.347 GB · ~46 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Gemma 3 — Gemma 3 4B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 2.415 GB · ~67 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Falcon 3 — Falcon 3 7B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.503975 GB · ~43 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Gemma 4 — Gemma 4 E4B	Q4 (QAT) · 4.5 GB · ~42 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Phi-4 Mini — Phi-4 Mini (3.8B)	Q4_K_M · 2.29425 GB · ~71 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

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FAQ

What LLMs run well with 6 GB VRAM?

Granite 3.0, Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3, DeepSeek R1, Bonsai 27B all fit in 6 GB VRAM.

Which GPUs have 6 GB VRAM?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB.

Can-I-Run Pages Near 6 GB

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If your 6 GB is system RAM, not VRAM

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