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What Can You Run on RTX 4060 Ti 16G?

A practical guide to picking the right model and quant level for NVIDIA's best budget 16GB card.

RTX 4060 TiGGUFEXL2VRAM

Sweet spot models

With 16GB VRAM you can comfortably run 7–14B models at Q4_K_M with 4K–8K context. Qwen2.5 7B, Llama 3.1 8B, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill 14B are top picks.

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Qwen2.5 7B Q4_K_M  → ~5.4 GB weights + ~2 GB KV @ 4K ctx
Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M → ~5.7 GB weights + ~2 GB KV @ 4K ctx
R1-Distill 14B EXL2 4.65bpw → ~9.8 GB total @ 4K ctx

Use the VRAM calculator

Always verify with our reverse GPU lookup before downloading a 20GB+ GGUF file.

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https://quantized.uk/tools/vram-calc/?mode=reverse&gpu=rtx4060ti16&ctx=4096&sort=quality
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