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RUNLOCALAI · v38
Will it run? / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

What can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run?

Build: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB + Ryzen 5 9600X + 32GB DDR5

Memory: 16 GB VRAM + 32 GB system RAM
Runner: llama.cpp / Ollama (CUDA)
AnyChatCodingAgentsReasoningVisionLong contextCreative

Runs comfortably
172 models

Full-VRAM resident, with room for context. No compromises.

#1all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 256VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB
21924
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.01 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#2Piper
0.025B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 0VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB
19293
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.02 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#3Whisper Tiny
0.039B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB
12367
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.02 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#4Whisper Base
0.074B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 1.8 GBHeadroom: 14.2 GB
6518
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.04 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#5Kokoro 82M
0.082B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 0VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GB
5882
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.05 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#6all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 384VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GB
4425
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.07 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#7paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
0.118B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 128VRAM: 1.9 GBHeadroom: 14.1 GB
4087
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.07 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.00 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#8Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GB
3521
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.08 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#9SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.135B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GB
3573
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.08 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#10GTE ModernBERT Base
0.149B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GB
3237
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.09 GB
KV cache
0.07 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#11Whisper Small
0.244B
other
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 30VRAM: 2.0 GBHeadroom: 14.0 GB
1977
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.15 GB
KV cache
0.00 GB
Activations
0.01 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
#12Gemma 3 270M
0.27B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 2.1 GBHeadroom: 13.9 GB
1786
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
0.16 GB
KV cache
0.14 GB
Activations
0.02 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →

Runs with tradeoffs
79 models

Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.

Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 24.6 GBHeadroom: 10.6 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~35% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen3:30b
3
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.11 GB
KV cache
3.75 GB
Activations
0.91 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 24.2 GBHeadroom: 11.0 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
2.15 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 32B
32B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.1 GBHeadroom: 9.1 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~39% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run qwen3:32b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.3 GBHeadroom: 9.9 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~37% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run gemma4:31b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
18.72 GB
KV cache
3.88 GB
Activations
0.94 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 8B
8B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 14.7 GBHeadroom: 1.3 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 1.3 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:8b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.50 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.43 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
32B
deepseek
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 26.1 GBHeadroom: 9.1 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~39% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run deepseek-r1:32b
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
19.32 GB
KV cache
4.00 GB
Activations
0.97 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Gemma 4 26B MoE
26B
gemma
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 31.3 GBHeadroom: 3.9 GB
  • • Partial CPU offload: ~49% of layers run on CPU
  • • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run gemma4:26b-moe
2
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
15.70 GB
KV cache
13.00 GB
Activations
0.79 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →
Qwen 3 14B
14B
qwen
Commercial OK
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB
  • • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen3:14b
34
tok/s
Estimated
Weights
8.45 GB
KV cache
1.75 GB
Activations
0.42 GB
Runtime
1.80 GB
Model details →

What if you upgraded?

Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.

+32 GB system RAM

~$80–150

Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.

Unlocks: 89 new tradeoff

  • • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
  • • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • • Qwen 3 32B
Shop this upgrade↗

Upgrade to NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)

~$350

22 GB VRAM (vs your 16 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~448 GB/s to ~616 GB/s.

Unlocks: 28 new comfortable

  • • Turkish Gemma 9B T1
  • • NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Japanese
  • • YTU Turkish Gemma 9B v0.1
  • • DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Shop this upgrade↗

Add a second NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

~$459

Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.

Unlocks: 62 new comfortable

  • • DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat
  • • Turkish Gemma 9B T1
  • • NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Japanese
  • • YTU Turkish Gemma 9B v0.1
Shop this upgrade↗

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Won't run
top 5 popular models

Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)
1600B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)
397B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
Qwen 3 235B-A22B
235B
qwen
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

—
DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)
671B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B MoE)
284B
deepseek
Commercial OK

Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.

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How to read these numbers

Measured here
Measured here - RunLocalAI ran this exact combo on owner hardware with public evidence.

Source-backed
Source-backed / community - a reproduced public source supports the speed, but it is not labeled as owner-measured.

Extrapolated
Extrapolated - predicted from a measured benchmark on similar-bandwidth hardware.

Estimated
Estimated - formula based on VRAM bandwidth and model architecture; not a benchmark row.

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