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Can the NVIDIA RTX 2070 run llama3.2 1B?

FULL

1.4 GB needed of 8 GB usable — headroom for context

8GB · Turing TU106 · model file 1.3GB · 1B

~170–250 tok/s

computed roofline: 448 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 3090 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA RTX 2070 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX 2070 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory