Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated July 15, 2026
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.
| Granite 3.0 — Granite 3.0 8B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~60 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.5885 GB · ~67 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.950749999999999 GB · ~59 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~61 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Qwen3-Coder — Qwen3-Coder 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~61 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Qwen 3.5 (Legacy Listing — Unverified) — Qwen 3.5 7B | Q4_K_M · 4.22625 GB · ~68 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Bonsai 27B — 1-bit Bonsai 27B | 1-bit (binary, ~1.125 bpw) · 3.796875 GB · ~69 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Llama 3.1 Family — Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~61 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| IBM Granite 4.1 — Granite 4.1 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.83 GB · ~61 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| EXAONE 3.5 — EXAONE 3.5 7.8B | Q4_K_M · 4.70925 GB · ~62 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Ministral — Ministral 8B | Q4_K_M · 4.8420749999999995 GB · ~60 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Qwen 2.5 VL — Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 5.005087499999999 GB · ~62 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| StarCoder 2 — StarCoder 2 7B | Q4_K_M · 4.347 GB · ~70 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Gemma 3 — Gemma 3 4B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 2.415 GB · ~99 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Falcon 3 — Falcon 3 7B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.503975 GB · ~65 tok/s on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 |
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Granite 3.0, Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3, DeepSeek R1, Qwen3-Coder all fit in 6 GB VRAM.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB.