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Can the NVIDIA RTX 2060 run llama3.2 1B?

FULL

1.4 GB needed of 6 GB usable — headroom for context

6GB · Turing TU106 · model file 1.3GB · 1B

~120–190 tok/s

computed roofline: 336 GB/s × 0.48–0.72 efficiency window / 1.3GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run llama3.2 1B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llama3.2 1B fully ($110)

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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