Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated July 15, 2026
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.
| Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~22 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 14B | Q4_K_M · 8.935500000000001 GB · ~22 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Codestral — Codestral 22B | Q4_K_M · 13.40325 GB · ~15 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~23 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Phi-4 Family — Phi-4 (14B) | Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~22 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Mistral Small 3.1 — Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Q4_K_M · 14.248500000000002 GB · ~14 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| InternLM 3 — InternLM 3 20B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 12.075 GB · ~16 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| 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 · ~36 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Qwen 3.5 (Legacy Listing — Unverified) — Qwen 3.5 14B | Q4_K_M · 8.4525 GB · ~23 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Bonsai 27B — Ternary Bonsai 27B | Ternary (1.58-bit, ~1.71 bpw) · 5.77125 GB · ~30 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~40 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.950749999999999 GB · ~35 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~36 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
| Qwen3-Coder — Qwen3-Coder 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~36 tok/s on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB |
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Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3, Codestral, DeepSeek R1, Phi-4 Family all fit in 16 GB VRAM.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT.