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Can the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB run llama3.1 8B?

TIGHT

5.4 of 6 GB usable — keep context modest

6GB · Turing · model file 4.9GB · 8B

~28–42 tok/s

computed roofline: 288 GB/s × 0.48–0.72 efficiency window / 4.9GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run llama3.1 8B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llama3.1 8B fully ($135)

rtx-3060-ti — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB

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