Best Local LLMs for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 12 lipca 2026

Best all-round pick: Qwen 3 8B

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 has 8 GB of VRAM, of which about 8 GB is available to a model. The largest model it can hold is Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct (11B, 7.2 GB at Q4_K_M).

Best models overall on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

ModelScoreMemory at Q4_K_MContextLicence
Qwen 3 8B96.15.8 GB125KApache 2.0
GLM-6 9B93.36.2 GB125KMIT
GLM-4.7 9B93.16.2 GB125KApache-2.0
Qwen 3.5 7B92.55 GB125KApache 2.0
GLM-5 9B926.2 GB125KMIT
IBM Granite 4.1 Granite 4.1 8B915.6 GB128KApache-2.0

Best model by what you are doing

WorkloadRecommended on this GPU
CodingQwen3-Coder 8B (96.3)
GLM-6 9B (93.2)
Qwen 3 8B (92.9)
General assistantQwen 3 8B (96.1)
GLM-6 9B (93.3)
GLM-4.7 9B (93.1)
ReasoningDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B (94.8)
Qwen 3 8B (93.1)
Qwen 3.5 9B (92.8)
RAGGLM-4.7 9B (79.3)
GLM-6 9B (79.3)
Qwen 3 8B (78.5)
AgentsGLM-6 9B (86.8)
GLM-5 9B (85.4)
IBM Granite 4.2 Granite 4.2 8B (77.6)
VisionGemma 4 E4B (91.6)
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct (91.6)
Ministral 3 8B (87.4)

What the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 cannot run

These models are strong picks generally but exceed the 8 GB this card makes available.

ModelNeeds at Q4_K_MShort by
Gemma 4 27B ⭐17.2 GB~9.2 GB
Mistral Small 3.1 24B15.1 GB~7.1 GB
Qwen 3.5 14B9.3 GB~1.3 GB
Gemma 3 12B Instruct8.1 GB~0.1 GB

How these numbers are calculated

FAQ

What is the best LLM for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060?

Qwen 3 8B is the strongest all-round pick that fits its 8 GB.

What is the largest model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 can run?

Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct — 11B parameters, needing 7.2 GB at Q4_K_M.

How much of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060's memory can a model actually use?

About 8 GB of its 8 GB, before the desktop and runtime overhead are accounted for.

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