Best LLMs for 8 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 8 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
Bonsai 27B — Ternary Bonsai 27B	Ternary (1.58-bit, ~1.71 bpw) · 5.77125 GB · ~33 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
InternLM 3 — InternLM 3 8B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 5.313000000000001 GB · ~39 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Qwen 3.5 — Qwen 3.5 9B	Q4_K_M · 5.43375 GB · ~36 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
Yi 1.5 Family — Yi 1.5 9B Chat	Q4_K_M · 5.3311125 GB · ~38 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Falcon 3 — Falcon 3 10B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 6.218625 GB · ~32 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1 — GLM-4 9B	Q4_K_M · 5.43375 GB · ~36 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Gemma 2 Family — Gemma 2 9B IT	Q4_K_M · 5.43375 GB · ~32 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

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FAQ

What LLMs run well with 8 GB VRAM?

Granite 3.0, Bonsai 27B, Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3, DeepSeek R1 all fit in 8 GB VRAM.

Which GPUs have 8 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 8 GB

Adjacent VRAM Tiers

No discrete GPU?

If your 8 GB is system RAM, not VRAM

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