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Can the NVIDIA RTX 2060 run gemma3 12B?

NO

9.6 GB vs 6 GB usable — does not fit

6GB · Turing TU106 · model file 8.1GB · 12B

~20–30 tok/s

computed roofline: 336 GB/s × 0.48–0.72 efficiency window / 8.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run gemma3 12B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs gemma3 12B fully ($135)

rtx-5060-ti-16 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX 2060

every model the NVIDIA RTX 2060 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX 2060 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory