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Best local LLMs for the NVIDIA GT 1010

2GB · RocketLake iGPU-class

Same story as GT 1030 — display out only. Class E dead-end: the advisor says so plainly and offers the cheapest real step up instead.

Dead end for LLMs

This card is below the useful floor for local LLM inference — we say so plainly and point at the cheapest real step up instead.

explore the full catalogupgrade paths with live prices · what fits on each machine

Speed

no computed band (non-banded class)

What fits (computed)

Cited community benches

no single-card bench published — band is computed (see notes)

Runs fully in memory (machine alternatives)

Nominal bandwidth: — GB/s — see the effective decode window above

qwen3:0.6b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 0.6B · 0.6GB · needs ~1GB (4k ctx)

qwen3:1.7b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1.7B · 1.4GB · needs ~1.8GB (4k ctx)

llama3.2:1b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1B · 1.3GB · needs ~1.4GB (4k ctx)

gemma3:1b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1B · 1.0GB · needs ~1.1GB (4k ctx)

Borderline — runs, but offloads

→ llama3.2:3b 3B — 2.4 GB vs 2 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss

→ whisper:tiny tiny — 2.1 of 2 GB usable — barely over; real with q8 KV cache (halves KV) or shorter context

→ whisper base — 2.3 GB vs 2 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss

→ kokoro:82m 82M — 2.3 GB vs 2 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss

Gotchas

⚠ Effectively an iGPU on a discrete board

Where to go next

gtx-1050-ti

cheapest real 4GB entry — runs 3B/4B Q4 fully

→ its best-models page

gtx-1650

first card where 8B Q4 fully fits (4GB)

→ its best-models page

2026-09-18 · ← full hardware catalog · fit = working set vs VRAM · speeds are community-reported, cited in our knowledge base